Katsuei Hirasawa

Katsuei Hirasawa
平沢 勝栄
Hirasawa in 2007
Minister of Reconstruction
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 September 2020
Prime Minister	Yoshihide Suga
Preceded by	Kazunori Tanaka
Member of the House of Representatives for Tokyo's 17th district
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 October 1996
Preceded by	Constituency established
Personal details
Born	(1945-09-04) 4 September 1945 Shirakawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Education	University of Tokyo Duke University
Website	Official website

Katsuei Hirasawa (平沢 勝栄, Hirasawa Katsuei) is a Japanese politician, currently serving as Minister of Reconstruction in Yoshihide Suga's cabinet. A member of the House of Representatives, Hirasawa is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and is openly affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.

Personal life

Hirasawa is a native of the village of Shirakawa, Gifu. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Law. He joined the National Police Agency in 1968 and attended Duke University in the United States while in the agency. He left in 1995.