Kazuyuki Hamada

Kazuyuki Hamada
浜田 和幸
Official portrait, 2015
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
5 September 2011  26 December 2012
Prime MinisterYoshihiko Noda
Preceded byMakiko Kikuta, Ikuo Yamahana, Hisashi Tokunaga
Succeeded byToshiko Abe, Minoru Kiuchi, Kenta Wakabayashi
Vice Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications
In office
27 June 2011  2 September 2011
Prime MinisterNaoto Kan
Preceded byAkira Uchiyama
Succeeded byAkio Fukuda
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
26 July 2010  25 July 2016
Preceded byKotaro Tamura
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyTottori at-large
Personal details
Born (1953-03-17) 17 March 1953
Yonago, Tottori, Japan
Political partyIndependent
(2013–2014; 2016–present)
Other political
affiliations
LDP (2010–2011)
PNP (2011–2013)
PJK (2014–2016)
JIP (2016)
Alma materTokyo University of Foreign Studies
George Washington University
Websitewww.hamadakazuyuki.com

Kazuyuki Hamada (浜田 和幸, Hamada Kazuyuki, born 17 March 1953) is a Japanese politician. He has served one term in the House of Councillors for the Tottori At-large district. After being elected in 2010 as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party, he changed parties three times before unsuccessfully seeking re-election as an independent candidate in 2016.