Hidenao Nakagawa

Hideo Nakagawa
中川 秀直
Official portrait, 2000
Chief Cabinet Secretary and Director of the Okinawa Development Agency
In office
4 July 2000  27 October 2000
Prime MinisterYoshirō Mori
Preceded byMikio Aoki
Succeeded byYasuo Fukuda
Director of the Science and Technology Agency and Chair of the AEC
In office
11 January 1996  7 November 1996
Prime MinisterRyutaro Hashimoto
Preceded byYasuoki Urano
Succeeded byRiichiro Chikaoka
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
19 July 1993  16 December 2012
ConstituencyHiroshima 2nd (1993–1996)
Hiroshima 4th (1996–2009)
Chūgoku PR (2009–2012)
In office
23 June 1980  24 January 1990
ConstituencyHiroshima 2nd
In office
10 December 1976  7 September 1979
ConstituencyHiroshima 2nd
Personal details
Born (1944-02-02) 2 February 1944
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Other political
affiliations
New Liberal Club
ChildrenToshinao Nakagawa
Alma materKeio University

Hidenao Nakagawa (中川 秀直, Nakagawa Hidenao, born 2 February 1944) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Diet (parliament).