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Hiroyuki Nagahama

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Hiroyuki Nagahama
長浜 博行
Nagahama in 2023
Vice President of the House of Councillors
In office
3 August 2022 – 1 August 2025
PresidentHidehisa Otsuji
Masakazu Sekiguchi
Preceded byToshio Ogawa
Succeeded byTetsuro Fukuyama
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 byHirohisa Fujii
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 (since 2018)
Other political
affiliations
JNP (1993–1994)
NFP (1994–1997)
DPJ (1998–2016)
DP (2016–2018)
DPP (2018)
Alma materWaseda University

Hiroyuki Nagahama (長浜 博行, Nagahama Hiroyuki; born 1958) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, who served as vice president of the House of Councillors from 2022 to 2025.

Biography

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A native of Tokyo and graduate of Waseda University, Nagahama 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]

After the 2022 House of Councillors election, Nagahama was elected vice president of the House of Councillors. After his term ended after the 2025 House of Councillors election, he was elected chairman of the Commission on the Constitution in the House of Councillors.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Hiroyuki NAGAHAMA (The Cabinet) | Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet
  2. ^ "参議院 常任委員長など決まる 国民と参政が委員長ポスト確保". NHK (in Japanese). 1 August 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
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House of Councillors
Preceded by Chairman of the Commisssion on the Constitution
2025–present
Incumbent
Preceded by Vice President of the House of Councillors
2022–2025
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of the Environment
2012
Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
(Political affairs, House of Councillors)

2011–2012
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Constitutional Democratic Party in the House of Councillors
2019–2020
Succeeded by