Katsuei Hirasawa
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Katsuei Hirasawa | |
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平沢 勝栄 | |
Minister of Reconstruction | |
Assumed office 16 September 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Yoshihide Suga |
Preceded by | Kazunori Tanaka |
Member of the House of Representatives for Tokyo's 17th district | |
Assumed office 20 October 1996 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Personal details | |
Born | Shirakawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan | 4 September 1945
Political party | Liberal Democratic Party |
Education | University of Tokyo Duke University |
Website | Official website |
Katsuei Hirasawa (平沢 勝栄, Hirasawa Katsuei) is a Japanese politician, currently serving as Minister of Reconstruction in Yoshihide Suga's cabinet.[1] A member of the House of Representatives, Hirasawa is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and is openly affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.
Personal life[]
Hirasawa is a native of the village of Shirakawa, Gifu. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Law. He joined the National Police Agency in 1968 and attended Duke University in the United States while in the agency. He left in 1995.
References[]
- ^ "菅新内閣20人中14人が「日本会議」のメンバー…右翼色は依然と". Yahoo! News. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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- Japanese politician, 1940s birth stubs
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Duke University alumni
- Japanese anti-communists
- Japanese police officers
- Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
- Politicians from Gifu Prefecture
- University of Tokyo alumni
- 21st-century Japanese politicians
- Members of Nippon Kaigi