Katsuei Hirasawa

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.

Katsuei Hirasawa
平沢 勝栄
Hirasawa in 2007
Minister of Reconstruction
Assumed office
16 September 2020
Prime MinisterYoshihide Suga
Preceded byKazunori Tanaka
Member of the House of Representatives
for Tokyo's 17th district
Assumed office
20 October 1996
Preceded byConstituency established
Personal details
Born (1945-09-04) 4 September 1945
Shirakawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
EducationUniversity of Tokyo
Duke University
WebsiteOfficial website

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

Political offices
Preceded by
Chiken Kakazu
Yoshitaka Sakurada
Taimei Yamaguchi
Senior Vice Minister of the Cabinet Office
2006–2007
Served alongside: Yoshimi Watanabe, Yoshimasa Hayashi
Succeeded by
Ben Kimura
Akihiko Yamamoto
Yoshio Nakagawa
House of Representatives of Japan
New district Representative for Tokyo 17th district
1996–present
Incumbent
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