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Place of Birth: Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
About Hideo Hiraoka
- Hideo Hiraoka (?? ??, Hiraoka Hideo, born January 14, 1954) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
- 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.
- 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.
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