Education
A native of Shimonoseki, Hayashi graduated from the University of Tokyo and studied at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
林 芳正
politician member of the House of Councillors
A native of Shimonoseki, Hayashi graduated from the University of Tokyo and studied at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
In the United States, he was a staffer for United States. Representative Stephen L. Neal and United States. Senator William V. Roth, Junior. He began his career with Mitsui & Company Hayashi entered politics as a secretary to his father, Finance Minister Yoshiro Hayashi in 1992.
Hayashi was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995.
He represents the fourth generation of politicians in his family and has concentrated on administrative and tax reform since taking office. Hayashi was appointed to the Cabinet for the first time as Minister of Defense on 1 August 2008.
He held this post for less than two months, however. In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso, appointed on 24 September 2008, Hayashi was replaced by Yasukazu Hamada.
After the Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in the December 2012 general election Hayashi was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
He likes karaoke and golf. He plays the guitar and keyboard with Liberal Democratic Party colleagues in a band called Gi!nz.
He is a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature), currently serving his third term in the Upper House representing Yamaguchi Prefecture. Around the same time he was also the member of the policy staff for a United States senator