Hiroaki Nagasawa
Early life. Nagasawa was born on August 19, 1958 in Tokyo, and studied sociology at Toyo University. Political career. In 1983, Nagasawa joined the "Komei Shimbun", which was the official newspaper of the Komeito. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2003. Nagasawa served in the House of Councillors from 2010 to 2017, having been re-elected in July 2016. Following his resignation, he was replaced as Senior Vice Minister by Masayoshi Hamada.