Hiroshi Hiraguchi

Hiroshi Hiraguchi
Hiroshi Hiraguchi
平口洋
	Official portrait, 2018
Member of the House of Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 16 December 2012
Preceded by	Daisuke Matsumoto
Constituency	Hiroshima 2nd
	In office; 11 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
Preceded by	Daisuke Matsumoto
Succeeded by	Daisuke Matsumoto
Constituency	Hiroshima 2nd
Personal details
Born	1 August 1948 (age 76); Etajima, Hiroshima, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Hiroshi Hiraguchi (平口洋, Hiraguchi Hiroshi, born August 1, 1948) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who serves as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

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.

References

政治家情報〜平口洋〜. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2007-10-12.

External links

Official website in Japanese.

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