MORIYAMA Hiroshi

• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Elected: Kagoshima 4th District (single-seat constituency), seven times
• Born: 8 April 1945, Kanoya, Kagoshima
• Education:
• Kagoshima Prefectural Nisshin High School (former Tsurumaru High School night course) (1965)

• Career:
• Member, House of Councillors (one term)


• Member, Kagoshima City Council (seven terms)
• Chairperson, Kagoshima City Council (youngest city council chairperson in the nation)
• President, Kyushu Association of Chairpersons of City Councils (two terms)
• President, Kagoshima Prefecture Association for the Promotion of Part-time and Correspondence Education
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance
• State Minister of Finance (Abe Cabinet and Fukuda Cabinet)
• Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Abe Cabinet)
• Chairperson, Subcommittee on Livestock and Dairy Policy, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
• Acting Chairperson, LDP Policy Research Council
• Chairperson, LDP Diet Affairs Committee
• Chairperson, LDP Headquarters for Economic Partnership Agreements including TPP, Japan-EU EPA, and Japan-US TAG
• Executive Acting Chairperson, LDP General Council
• Chairperson, LDP Election Strategy Committee
• Elected to the House of Councillors for Kagoshima Prefecture district (1998)
• Elected to the House of Representatives through by-election for Kagoshima 5th district (2004)
• Director, Standing Committee on Internal Affairs and Communications, House of Representatives (HR)
• Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Budget
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries