MORIYAMA Hiroshi

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Kagoshima 4th District (single-seat constituency), elected eight times

• In-House Group: Liberal Democratic Party
• Born: 8 April 1945, Kanoya, Kagoshima
• Education:
• Kagoshima Prefectural Nisshin High School (night course of former Tsurumaru High School) (1965)

• Career:
• Member, House of Councillors (one term)
• Member, Kagoshima City Council (seven terms)
• Chairperson, Kagoshima City Council (youngest city council chairperson in Japan)
• President, Kyushu Association of Chairpersons of City Councils (two terms)
• President, Kagoshima Prefecture Association for the Promotion of Part-time and Correspondence Education
• State Minister of Finance (Abe and Fukuda Cabinets)
• Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Abe Cabinet)
• Chairperson, Diet Affairs Committee, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
• Chairperson, LDP Headquarters for Economic Partnership Agreements including TPP, Japan-EU EPA, and Japan-US TAG
• Senior Advisor, LDP Research Commission on Comprehensive Agriculture and Forestry Administration
• Chairperson, LDP Election Strategy Committee
• Chairperson, LDP General Council
• Secretary-General, LDP
• Elected to the House of Councillors (1998)
• First Elected to the House of Representatives (2004)
• Director, HR Standing Committee on Internal Affairs and Communications
• Senior Director, HR Standing Committee on Budget
• Chair, HR Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries