Hiromu Nonaka

Hiromu Nonaka
野中 廣務
Official portrait, 1998
Head of the Okinawa Development Agency
In office
14 January 1999  5 October 1999
Prime MinisterKeizo Obuchi
Preceded byKichio Inoue
Succeeded byMikio Aoki
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office
5 October 1998  30 July 1999
Prime MinisterKeizo Obuchi
Preceded byKanezo Muraoka
Succeeded byMikio Aoki
Minister of Home Affairs
In office
30 June 1994  8 August 1995
Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama
Preceded byHajime Ishii
Succeeded byTakashi Fukaya
Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission
In office
30 June 1994  8 August 1995
Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama
Preceded byHajime Ishii
Succeeded byTakashi Fukaya
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
8 August 1983  10 October 2003
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byHideo Tanaka
ConstituencyKyoto 2nd (1983–1996)
Kyoto 4th (1996–2003)
Member of the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly
In office
23 April 1967  May 1978
ConstituencyFunai District
Personal details
Born(1925-10-20)20 October 1925
Sonobe, Kyoto, Japan
Died26 January 2018(2018-01-26) (aged 92)
Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic

Hiromu Nonaka (野中 廣務, Nonaka Hiromu; 20 October 1925 – 26 January 2018) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Nonaka served as a local politician in Kyoto Prefecture from 1951 to 1978 and in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2003, becoming one of its most prominent members in the 1990s. Nonaka served as Minister of Home Affairs and Head of the National Public Safety Commission from 1994 to 1995, as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1998 to 1999, and as Head of the Okinawa Development Agency in 1999. Nonaka was widely considered as a voice of reason within the Liberal Democratic Party and viewed by some as the most powerful person in Japan during the mid-to-late 1990s.