Hiroshi Yamada

Hiroshi Yamada
山田 宏
Official portrait, 2017
Member of the House of Councillors
Assumed office
26 July 2016
Preceded byMulti-member district
ConstituencyNational PR
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
21 December 2012  21 November 2014
ConstituencyTokyo PR
In office
19 July 1993  27 September 1996
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyTokyo 4th
Mayor of Suginami
In office
27 April 1999  31 May 2010
Preceded byYasumasa Motohashi
Succeeded byRyō Tanaka
Member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
In office
23 July 1985  2 July 1993
ConstituencySuginami ward
Personal details
Born (1958-01-08) 8 January 1958
Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
(1986–1992; 2018–present)
Other political
affiliations
NLC (1976–1986)
JNP (1992–1994)
NFP (1994–1998)
Independent (1998–2010)
SoJ (2010–2012)
JRP (2012–2014)
PJK (2014–2018)
Alma materKyoto University

Hiroshi Yamada (山田 宏, Yamada Hiroshi) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who is serving as a member of the House of Councillors. He is a former member of the House of Representatives and was the inaugural Secretary-General of the Party for Future Generations, an opposition party formed in August 2014.