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Hajime Hirota
Hajime Hirota
広田一
	Official portrait, 2021
Member of the House of Councillors
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 22 October 2023
Preceded by	Kojiro Takano
Constituency	Tokushima-Kōchi at-large
	In office; 26 July 2004 – 25 July 2016
Preceded by	Kojiro Takano
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Kōchi at-large
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 22 October 2017 – 14 October 2021
Preceded by	Yūji Yamamoto
Succeeded by	Masanao Ozaki
Constituency	Kōchi 2nd district
Member of the Kōchi Prefectural Assembly
	In office; 1995–2001
Constituency	Tosashimizu City
Personal details
Born	10 October 1968 (age 56); Tosashimizu, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Political party	CDP (since 2020)
Other political; affiliations	LDP (before 2001); Independent (2001–2009; 2017–2020); DPJ (2009–2016); DP (2016–2017)
Alma mater	University of Waseda

Hajime Hirota (広田一, Hirota Hajime, born October 10, 1968) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the National Diet since 2023, having previously served from 2004 until 2016. He previously served two terms in the Kōchi Prefectural Assembly from 1995 until 2001.

In 2015 changes to the electoral laws merged Hirota's Kōchi at-large district with the neighbouring Tokushima district, in order to address the problem of disparity in the representation of urban and rural areas. In October 2015 Hirota announced that he would not contest the merged Tokushima-Kōchi at-large district at the 2016 election as a protest against the merger.^[1] In June 2016 it was reported that Hirota would instead contest one of Kochi Prefecture's districts at the next House of Representatives election, to be held by the end of 2018.^[2] His decision meant that no candidates that contested the new district were born in Kochi Prefecture.

References

^ "民主党・広田氏、「徳島・高知」から不出馬" [Democrat Hirota will not contest Tokushima-Kochi]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). 1 November 2015. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
^ "参院改選19人が引退・不出馬江田元議長ら" [19 Councillors to retire or not contest election, including former president Eda]. Nikkei (in Japanese). 2 June 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.

政治家情報〜広田一〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-08. Retrieved 2007-11-17.

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[Hirota-1] "民主党・広田氏、「徳島・高知」から不出馬" [Democrat Hirota will not contest Tokushima-Kochi]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). 1 November 2015. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.

[2] "参院改選19人が引退・不出馬江田元議長ら" [19 Councillors to retire or not contest election, including former president Eda]. Nikkei (in Japanese). 2 June 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.

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