Education
University of Pennsylvania. University of Tokyo.
平口 洋
University of Pennsylvania. University of Tokyo.
A native of Etajima, Hiroshima and graduate of the University of Tokyo he jointed the Ministry of Construction in 1972 and attended the University of Pennsylvania in the United States as a ministry official Leaving the ministry in 2001, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives as an independent in 2003.
He ran again in 2005 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and was elected for the first time.