Hiroyuki Nagahama (長浜 博行, Nagahama Hiroyuki, born 1958) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

Hiroyuki Nagahama
長浜 博行
Vice President of the House of Councillors
Assumed office
3 August 2022
PresidentHidehisa Otsuji
Masakazu Sekiguchi
Preceded byToshio Ogawa
Minister of the Environment
In office
1 October 2012 – 26 December 2012
Prime MinisterYoshihiko Noda
Preceded byGoshi Hosono
Succeeded byNobuteru Ishihara
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
(Political affairs, House of Councillors)
In office
2 September 2011 – 1 October 2012
Prime MinisterYoshihiko Noda
Preceded byTetsuro Fukuyama
Succeeded byHirokazu Shiba
Member of the House of Councillors
Assumed office
29 July 2007
Preceded byAkira Imaizumi
ConstituencyChiba at-large
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
26 June 2000 – 12 July 2007
Preceded byYoshitaka Sakurada
Succeeded byMulti-member district
ConstituencyChiba 8th (2000–2003)
Southern Kanto PR (2003–2007)
In office
19 July 1993 – 27 September 1996
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyChiba 4th
Personal details
Born (1958-10-20) 20 October 1958 (age 66)
Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Political partyCDP (2018–present)
Other political
affiliations
JNP (1993–1994)
NFP (1994–1997)
DPJ (1998–2016)
DP (2016–2018)
DPP (2018)
Alma materWaseda University

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]

References

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  • 政治家情報 〜長浜 博行〜. JANJAN (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 November 2007.
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