Wakako Hironaka

Wakako Hironaka
広中 和歌子
Hironaka in 2010
Director-General of the Environmental Agency
In office
9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Prime MinisterMorihiro Hosokawa
Preceded byTaikan Hayashi
Succeeded byToshiko Hamayotsu
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
8 July 1986 – 25 July 2010
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byHiroyuki Konishi
ConstituencyNational PR (1986–1998)
Chiba at-large (1998–2010)
Personal details
Born (1934-05-11) 11 May 1934
PartyDPP (since 2018)
Other political
affiliations
CGP (1986–1994)
NFP (1994–1998)
GGP (1998)
DPJ (1998–2016)
DP (2016–2018)
Spouse
(m. 1960)
Children2
Alma materBrandeis University
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Wakako Hironaka (広中 和歌子, Hironaka Wakako; born 11 May 1934, Tokyo) is a Japanese writer and politician. She served four terms in the House of Councillors, the upper house of the national Diet, from 1986 until 2010. Her husband is Heisuke Hironaka, a mathematician.