Hirofumi Ryu

I'll be honest, Hirofumi Ryu isn't the kind of politician who jumps off a screen at you, and I kind of love that about him. The man's a Fukuoka City kid who went through Shuyukan High and then Keio's Faculty of Letters, which is a quietly impressive, deeply unflashy resume, the path of someone who reads the whole document instead of just the headline. Born in '65, a Capricorn, and I swear you can almost feel the methodical, slow-build temperament in that. I picture him as more of a craftsman than a showman, the type who'd rather win an argument with a tidy line of reasoning than out-shout anyone on a talk show. There's a Kyushu steadiness in him, the sort of person voters trust precisely because he's not trying to dazzle them. Substance over sparkle, and I'm here for it.

Hirofumi Ryu is a Japanese politician born on January 3, 1965, in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan High School and went on to study at the Faculty of Letters, Keio University. He maintains an official website and is active on X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Hirofumi Ryu

Name (Japanese)

笠浩史

Reading

りゅう ひろふみ

Born

January 3, 1965 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake (Mi)

Origin

Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Politician

High school

Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan High School

University

Faculty of Letters, Keio University

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://ryu-h.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/hirofumi_ryu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AC%A0%E6%B5%A9%E5%8F%B2

Tags

• From Fukuoka Prefecture
• Politician

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.