Education
University of Tokyo.
平野 達男
politician university professor
University of Tokyo.
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.
