ISHIHARA Hirotaka

• Minister of the Environment
• Minister of State for Nuclear Emergency Preparedness


• Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tokyo 3rd District (single-seat constituency), elected seven times


• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Born: June 1964, Zushi, Kanagawa
• Education:
• Faculty of Economics, Keio University

• Career:
• Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Environment
• Chairperson, Special Committee for the Promotion of Isolated Islands and Peninsula Areas, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
• Chief Secretary, LDP Research Commission on Environment and Global Warming Countermeasures
• Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (in charge of key national security policies, nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues)
• Director-General, LDP Information Bureau
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Environment
• State Minister of Cabinet Office
• State Minister of the Environment
• Director, Second Cabinet Division, LDP Policy Research Council
• Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Chairperson, LDP Shinagawa District General Branch
• Chairperson, LDP Tokyo Metropolitan House of Representatives 3rd Electoral District Branch
• Counsellor, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
• Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited