Katsuei Hirasawa

Katsuei Hirasawa (平沢 勝栄, Hirasawa Katsuei, born September 4, 1945) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of the village of Shirakawa, Gifu and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he jointed the National Police Agency in 1968, attending Duke University in the United States while in the agency. Leaving the agency in 1995, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.