Katsuei Hirasawa : Biography Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Katsuei Hirasawa

Japanese politician

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (September 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 3,701 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:平沢勝栄]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|平沢勝栄}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

平沢勝栄

Hirasawa in 2020

Minister of ReconstructionIn office
16 September 2020 – 4 October 2021Prime MinisterYoshihide SugaPreceded byKazunori TanakaSucceeded byKosaburo NishimeMember of the House of Representatives
for Tokyo's 17th district

Incumbent

Assumed office
20 October 1996Preceded byConstituency established Personal detailsBorn (1945-09-04) 4 September 1945 (age 78)
Shirakawa, Gifu, JapanPolitical partyLiberal Democratic PartyEducationUniversity of Tokyo
Duke UniversityWebsiteOfficial website

Katsuei Hirasawa (平沢勝栄, Hirasawa Katsuei) is a Japanese politician who served as the 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 affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.

Biography

Hirasawa is a native of the village of Shirakawa, Gifu. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Law. As a student, he served for two years as a private tutor to the elementary school-aged Shinzo Abe.^[2] He joined the National Police Agency in 1968 and attended Duke University in the United States while in the agency. He retired from the Agency in 1995 with the rank of Senior Commissioner (警視監, Keishi-kan).

He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.^[3]

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. Archived from the original on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
^ "安倍晋三の家庭教師を勤める". hirasawa.net. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
^ "東京17区". go2senkyo.com. Retrieved 27 May 2022.

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