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Katsuei Hirasawa

Politician

Katsuei Hirasawa is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	AKatsuei Hirasawa · HIRASAWA Katsuei · Katsuei Hirasawa · Кацуэй Хирасава · 平沢勝栄 · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Katsuei Hirasawa · Хирасава, Кацуэй · ひらさわかつえい · 平沢勝栄君 · 平沢勝栄 · 1 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	平沢勝榮 · 平澤勝栄 · 平澤勝榮				[sources]
Birth date	1945-09-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Shirakawa · Shirakawa, Gifu				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Citizenship	Japan				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Katsuei				[sources]
Last name	Hirasawa				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	hirasawa.net · hirasawa.net · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6378065				[sources]
Position	Shūgiin (member, 2014-2017) · Shūgiin (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of Japan · member of the House of Representatives of Japan (2017-)				[sources]
Education	Duke University · Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan · Master's degree, Duke University, USA · University of Tokyo (-1968)				[sources]
Source link	www.shugiin.go.jp				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Member of the House of Representatives (HR) for Tokyo 17th District (single-seat constituency), elected ten times

— Japanese House of Representatives Members, 2025-10-13

Japanese politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the House of Representatives of Japan	2021-10-31	2024-10-09
member of the House of Representatives of Japan

Data sources

Japanese House of Representatives Members465

Current members of the Japanese House of Representatives (Shūgiin), the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.

Japan · Shūgiin

Every Politician57,742

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,011

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,144

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata353,686

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,185

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-12156bf0-9ab0-4be3-b2b3-ca86d4085dc3 · jp-shu-457816023677d286a2badde15352f2142b7e94f4

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