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Katsuei Hirasawa
平沢 勝栄
Hirasawa in 2020
Minister of Reconstruction
In office
16 September 2020 – 4 October 2021
Prime MinisterYoshihide Suga
Preceded byKazunori Tanaka
Succeeded byKosaburo Nishime
Member of the House of Representatives
for Tokyo's 17th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 October 1996
Preceded byConstituency established
Personal details
Born (1945-09-04) 4 September 1945 (age 79)
Shirakawa, Gifu, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
EducationUniversity of Tokyo
Duke University
WebsiteOfficial 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. 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. 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.

References

  1. "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.
  2. "安倍晋三の家庭教師を勤める". hirasawa.net. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  3. "東京17区". go2senkyo.com. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
Political offices
Preceded byChiken Kakazu
Yoshitaka Sakurada
Taimei Yamaguchi 		Senior Vice Minister of the Cabinet Office
2006–2007
Served alongside: Yoshimi Watanabe, Yoshimasa Hayashi 		Succeeded byBen Kimura
Akihiko Yamamoto
Yoshio Nakagawa
House of Representatives (Japan)
New district Representative for Tokyo 17th district
1996–present 		Incumbent


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