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Hideo Hiraoka

Japanese politician

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Japanese politician

Field	Value
name	Hideo Hiraoka
native_name	平岡秀夫
native_name_lang	ja
image	Hideo Hiraoka 20101101 02 (cropped).jpg
caption	Hiraoka in 2010
office	Minister of Justice
primeminister	Yoshihiko Noda
term_start	2 September 2011
term_end	13 January 2012
predecessor	Satsuki Eda
successor	Toshio Ogawa
office1	Member of the House of Representatives
constituency1	Chūgoku PR
term_start1	1 November 2024
constituency2	Yamaguchi 2nd
term_start2	27 April 2008
term_end2	16 December 2012
predecessor2	Yoshihiko Fukuda
successor2	Nobuo Kishi
constituency3	Yamaguchi 2nd (2000–2005)
Chūgoku PR (2005–2008)
term_start3	25 June 2000
term_end3	15 April 2008
predecessor3	Shinji Satō
successor3	Takashi Wada
birth_date
birth_place	Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan
party	CDP (since 2018)
otherparty	DPJ (2000–2016)
DP (2016–2018)
DPP (2018)
alma_mater	University of Tokyo (LLB)
profession	Lawyer

Chūgoku PR (2005–2008) DP (2016–2018) DPP (2018) Hideo Hiraoka is a Japanese politician and lawyer in the House of Representatives who served as the Minister of Justice from 2011 to 2012. He is a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party, having previously being a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. As a representative, he has represented the 2nd District of Yamaguchi prefecture and the Chūgoku proportional representation block.

Early life

A native of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Hiraoka passed the bar exam and civil service exam prior to his graduation at the University of Tokyo. In 1976 he entered the Ministry of Finance which he joined before resigning in 1998 after working in the National Tax Agency's corporate tax department.

Political career

In 2000, after leaving the ministry, he was elected to a seat of the House of Representatives for the first time; the district he represented, Yamaguchi Prefecture's No. 2 district, was previously a stronghold for the rival Liberal Democratic Party. Following a large-scale upturn by the Liberal Democratic Party, Hiraoka lost his seat by 588 votes, remaining in the Lower House through a process known as proportional representation. In 2008 he took back the Yamaguchi No. 2 seat, marking his fifth term as its representative for the Lower House. Hiraoka was later appointed state secretary for internal affairs and communications in 2010. In September 2011 he was appointed Minister of Justice in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.

He was defeated by Nobuo Kishi (a brother of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and grandson of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi) in the 2012 Japanese general election, and lost his Diet seat. He unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in the 2013 Japanese House of Councillors election and 2014 Japanese general election.

In 2015, he retired from politics and moved to Tokyo to take up law practice at a firm in Ginza. Hiraoka later returned to politics and was re-elected in the 2024 election.

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