Hirofumi Hirano

Chief Cabinet SecretaryIn office
16 September 2009 – 8 June 2010Prime MinisterYukio HatoyamaPreceded byTakeo KawamuraSucceeded byYoshito SengokuMinister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and TechnologyIn office
13 January 2012 – 1 October 2012Prime MinisterYoshihiko NodaPreceded byMasaharu NakagawaSucceeded byMakiko TanakaMember of the House of RepresentativesIn office
21 October 1996 - 16 November 2012
19 December 2014 – 14 October 2021ConstituencyKinki PR block
(2014-2017)
Osaka 11th district
(1996-2012,2017-2021) Personal detailsBorn (1949-03-19) March 19, 1949 (age 75)
Katsuragi, Wakayama, JapanPolitical partyCDP
(2020-present)Other political
affiliationsIndependent
(1996-1998)
Democratic
(1998-2016, merger)
DP
(2016-2018, merger)
DPP
(2018-2020, merger)Alma materChuo UniversitySignature

Hirofumi Hirano (平野 博文, Hirano Hirofumi, born March 19, 1949) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). He is a native of Katsuragi, Wakayama and he started working for Panasonic Corporation in 1971 after graduating from Chuo University. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 as an independent. He was the Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Yukio Hatoyama administration. He represented the 11th District of Osaka Prefecture from 1996 until 2012, and again from 2014 to 2021.

References

• 政治家情報 〜平野 博文〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Retrieved 2007-10-12.

External links

• Official website in Japanese.

Political offices
Preceded by Takeo Kawamura	Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan 2009–2010	Succeeded by Yoshito Sengoku
Preceded by Mizuho Fukushima	Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety (acting) 2010	Succeeded by Satoshi Arai
	Minister of State for Social Affairs and Gender Equality (acting) 2010	Succeeded by Kōichirō Genba
House of Representatives of Japan
New constituency	Representative for Osaka's 11th district 1996–2021	Succeeded by Hiroshi Nakatsuka