is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Hiroshi Hiraguchi | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 16 December 2012 |
Predecessor: | Daisuke Matsumoto |
Constituency: | Hiroshima 2nd district |
Term Start1: | 11 September 2005 |
Term End1: | 21 July 2009 |
Predecessor1: | Daisuke Matsumoto |
Successor1: | Daisuke Matsumoto |
Constituency1: | Hiroshima 2nd district |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1948 |
Birth Place: | Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan |
Party: | Liberal Democratic |
Alma Mater: | University of Tokyo |
A native of Etajima, Hiroshima and graduate of the University of Tokyo he jointed the Ministry of Construction in 1972 and attended the University of Pennsylvania in the United States as a ministry official. Leaving the ministry in 2001, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives as an independent in 2003. He ran again in 2005 as a member of the LDP and was elected for the first time. He has represented the 2nd District of Hiroshima prefecture from 2005 to 2009, and again from 2012 to the present.