page_title: Tatsuo Hirano
hierarchical_section_title: Tatsuo Hirano
caption_attribution_description: BANGKOK/THAILAND, 31MAY12 - Tatsuo Hirano, Minister for Reconstruction: Minister for Comprehensive Review of Measures in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake, Reconstruction Agency, Japan, captured during the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, May 31, 2012. Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) Photo by Sikarin Thanachaiary
context_page_description: Tatsuo Hirano is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kitakami, Iwate and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 1977, attending the Iowa State University in the United States as a ministry official. In 2001, he left the ministry and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.
  On July 5, 2011, after the abrupt resignation of Ryū Matsumoto, Hirano was named the Minister of State for Disaster Management, in the aftermath of the Great East Japan earthquake in his native Tōhoku region. He was reappointed to the post in September 2011 in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.
context_section_description: Tatsuo Hirano (平野 達男, Hirano Tatsuo, born May 2, 1954) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kitakami, Iwate and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 1977, attending the Iowa State University in the United States as a ministry official. In 2001, he left the ministry and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time.
  On July 5, 2011, after the abrupt resignation of Ryū Matsumoto, Hirano was named the Minister of State for Disaster Management, in the aftermath of the Great East Japan earthquake in his native Tōhoku region.  He was reappointed to the post in September 2011 in the cabinet of newly appointed prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.
caption: Tatsuo Hirano at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in 2012
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