Hirofumi Nakasone

Minister for Foreign AffairsIn office
24 September 2008 – 16 September 2009Prime MinisterTarō AsōPreceded byMasahiko KōmuraSucceeded byKatsuya OkadaMinister of Education
Director of the Science and Technology AgencyIn office
5 October 1999 – July 2000Prime MinisterKeizō Obuchi
Yoshirō MoriPreceded byAkito ArimaSucceeded byTadamori ŌshimaMember of the House of CouncillorsAssumed office
6 July 1986ConstituencyGunma at-large district Personal detailsBorn (1945-11-28) 28 November 1945 (age 78)
Takasaki, Gunma, JapanPolitical partyLiberal Democratic PartyChildrenYasutaka NakasoneAlma materKeio University

Hirofumi Nakasone (中曽根 弘文, Nakasone Hirofumi, born 28 November 1945) is a Japanese politician from Takasaki, Gunma, who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from September 2008 to September 2009. He was Minister of Education under Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori. He is former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's son.

Nakasone was appointed as head of the Science and Technology Agency by Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi in early October 1999.^[1] In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Tarō Asō, appointed on 24 September 2008, Nakasone was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.^[2]

Early years

Nakasone was born in Gunma Prefecture in 1945 and graduated from Keio University with a degree in Business and Commerce.^[3]

After graduation, he worked briefly at Asahi Kasei and then became Special Assistant to his father, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Secretary to the President of the Liberal Democratic Party.^[3]

Nakasone has been a member of the House of Councillors since being elected in 1986.

Revisionism regarding 'Comfort women'

Nakasone is affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi.^[4] His own father Yasuhiro Nakasone is claimed to have organized a 'comfort station' in 1942 when he was a lieutenant paymaster in Japan's Imperial Navy. Hirofumi Nakasone chairs a commission established to consider "concrete measures to restore Japan's honor with regard to the comfort women issue."^[5]

Honors

•  Mexico - Bands of the Order of the Aztec Eagle

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