Hirofumi Hirano

Hirofumi Hirano is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. He is a native of Katsuragi, Wakayama and he started working for Panasonic Corporation in 1971 after graduating from Chuo University. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 as an independent. He was the Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Yukio Hatoyama administration. He represented the 11th District of Osaka Prefecture from 1996 until 2012, and again from 2014 to the present.