Hiroshi Nakai

Hiroshi Nakai
Hiroshi Nakai
中井洽
	Official portrait, 2009
Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
	In office; 16 September 2009 – 17 September 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama; Naoto Kan
Preceded by	Motoo Hayashi
Succeeded by	Tomiko Okazaki
Minister for the Abduction Issue
	In office; 16 September 2009 – 17 September 2010
Prime Minister	Yukio Hatoyama; Naoto Kan
Preceded by	Takeo Kawamura
Succeeded by	Minoru Yanagida
Minister of Justice
	In office; 8 May 1994 – 30 June 1994
Prime Minister	Tsutomu Hata
Preceded by	Nagano Shigeto
Succeeded by	Isao Maeda
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 19 February 1990 – 16 November 2012
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Jirō Kawasaki
Constituency	Former Mie 1st (1990–1996); Mie 1st (1996–2000; 2009–2012); Tōkai PR (2000–2009)
	In office; 10 December 1976 – 2 June 1986
Constituency	Former Mie 1st
Personal details
Born	10 June 1942; Hsinking, Manchukuo
Died	22 April 2017 (aged 74); Tokyo, Japan
Political party	DP (2016–2017)
Other political; affiliations	JSP (before 1972); Independent (1972–1975); DSP (1975–1994); NFP (1994–1997); LP (1997–2003); DPJ (2003–2016)
Parent	Tokujirō Nakai (father);
Alma mater	Keio University

Hiroshi Nakai (中井洽, Nakai Hiroshi, 10 June 1942 – 22 April 2017) was a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. He was born in Jilin, China on 10 June 1942, then part of Manchukuo. A graduate of Keio University he was elected for the first time in 1976 after an unsuccessful run in 1972.

Nakai died on 22 April 2017 from stomach cancer at the age of 74.^[1]

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