Daisaku Hiraki

Daisaku Hiraki is the kind of politician who doesn't make the front page for the flashy stuff — and honestly, that might be his whole brand. Born in 1974 in Nagano City, he grew up surrounded by mountains, and there's something about that slow, grounded environment that feels like it shaped him. Tokyo University on the resume tells you he's got the intellectual horsepower, but politics in Japan isn't really a meritocracy of ideas — it's a marathon of constituent meetings, local rounds, and years of quietly showing up. He has been in the upper house since 2013 and worked his way to running Komeito's Diet affairs, and the steady, undramatic public servants are often the ones holding the whole machine together without anyone noticing. He's that guy.

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Daisaku Hiraki is a Japanese politician born on October 16, 1974, in Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture. He graduated from the University of Tokyo. A Komeito member of the House of Councillors since 2013, now in his third term, he has served as a senior vice minister for reconstruction and as Komeito's Diet affairs chief.

Name (English)

Daisaku Hiraki

Name (Japanese)

平木大作

Reading

ひらき だいさく

Born

October 16, 1974 (age 52)

Origin

Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

University

University of Tokyo

• Official sitehttps://hiraki.komeinet.com
• Xhttps://x.com/Hiraki_Daisaku
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E6%9C%A8%E5%A4%A7%E4%BD%9C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17226328

Tags

• From Nagano Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.