Hiroyuki Nagahama

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
Member of the House of Councillors
Assumed office
29 July 2007
ConstituencyChiba at-large
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
26 June 2000 – 12 July 2007
ConstituencyChiba 8th
(2000-2003)
Southern Kanto PR block
(2003-2007)
In office
19 July 1993 – 27 September 1996
ConstituencyChiba 4th
Personal details
Born (1958-10-20) October 20, 1958 (age 66)
Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Political partyCDP
(2018-present)
Other political
affiliations
Japan New
(1993-1994, merger)
New Frontier
(1994-1997)
Democratic
(1998-2016, merger)
DP
(2016-2018, merger)
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]