is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).
Birth Date: | 20 October 1958 |
Native Name: | 長浜 博行 |
Native Name Lang: | jp |
Alma Mater: | Waseda University |
Party: | CDP |
Otherparty: | Japan New New Frontier Democratic DP DPP |
Birth Place: | Sumida, Tokyo, Japan |
Order: | Vice President of the House of Councillors |
President: | Hidehisa Otsuji |
Term Start: | 3 August 2022 |
Predecessor: | Toshio Ogawa |
Office1: | Minister of the Environment |
Primeminister1: | Yoshihiko Noda |
Term Start1: | 1 October 2012 |
Term End1: | 26 December 2012 |
Predecessor1: | Goshi Hosono |
Successor1: | Nobuteru Ishihara |
Term Start2: | 29 July 2007 |
Constituency2: | Chiba at-large |
Term Start3: | 26 June 2000 |
Term End3: | 12 July 2007 |
Constituency3: | Chiba 8th Southern Kanto PR block |
Term Start4: | 19 July 1993 |
Term End4: | 27 September 1996 |
Constituency4: | Chiba 4th |
A native of Tokyo and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa's Japan New Party. After losing his seat in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, he was elected again in 2000 as a member of DPJ. In 2007, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.
In 2012, Nagahama was appointed the Minister of the Environment.[1]