Yasuhiro Oe

Yasuhiro Oe
大江 康弘
Oe in 2016
Mayor of Shirahama
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 May 2024
Preceded by	Makoto Itani
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 29 July 2001 – 22 May 2013
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Terutsugu Yamamura
Constituency	National PR
Member of the Wakayama Prefectural Assembly
In office 1979–2000
Constituency	Wakayama City
Personal details
Born	(1953-12-04) 4 December 1953 Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan
Political party	Independent (1998–2001; 2010–2011; 2018–present)
Other political affiliations	LDP (1979–1993; 2013–2018) JRP (1993–1994) NFP (1994–1998) LP (2001–2003) DPJ (2003–2008) JRP (2008–2010) HRP (2010)
Alma mater	Ashiya University

Yasuhiro Oe (大江 康弘, Ōe Yasuhiro; born December 4, 1950) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

Early life

Oe is a native of Tanabe, Wakayama. He graduated from Ashiya University and the Western Australia Institute of Technology.

Political career

From 1979 Oe served in the assembly of Wakayama Prefecture for six terms.

After running unsuccessfully for governorship of Wakayama Prefecture in 2000, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2001.

In May 2010, he joined the Happiness Realization Party, giving that group its first national political representative. He left the party six months later, and is currently a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Right-wing positions

He was a supporter of right-wing filmmaker Satoru Mizushima's 2007 revisionist film The Truth about Nanjing, which denied that the Nanjing Massacre ever occurred.