Hiroyuki Nagahama

Hiroyuki Nagahama (長浜 博行, Nagahama Hiroyuki; born 1958) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature).

Hiroyuki Nagahama
長浜 博行
Nagahama in 2023
Vice President of the House of Councillors
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 August 2022
President	Hidehisa Otsuji Masakazu Sekiguchi
Preceded by	Toshio Ogawa
Minister of the Environment
In office 1 October 2012 – 26 December 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Goshi Hosono
Succeeded by	Nobuteru Ishihara
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political affairs, House of Councillors)
In office 2 September 2011 – 1 October 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Tetsuro Fukuyama
Succeeded by	Hirokazu Shiba
Member of the House of Councillors
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 July 2007
Preceded by	Akira Imaizumi
Constituency	Chiba at-large
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 26 June 2000 – 12 July 2007
Preceded by	Yoshitaka Sakurada
Succeeded by	Hirohisa Fujii
Constituency	Chiba 8th (2000–2003) Southern Kanto PR (2003–2007)
In office 19 July 1993 – 27 September 1996
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Chiba 4th
Personal details
Born	(1958-10-20) 20 October 1958 (age 66) Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Political party	CDP (since 2018)
Other political affiliations	JNP (1993–1994) NFP (1994–1997) DPJ (1998–2016) DP (2016–2018) DPP (2018)
Alma mater	Waseda University

A native of Tokyo and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa's Japan New Party. After losing his seat in 1996 as a member of the New Frontier Party, he was elected again in 2000 as a member of DPJ. In 2007, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.

In 2012, Nagahama was appointed the Minister of the Environment.^[1]