| Katsuei Hirasawa | |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Office: | Minister of Reconstruction |
| Primeminister: | Yoshihide Suga |
| Term Start: | 16 September 2020 |
| Term End: | 4 October 2021 |
| Predecessor: | Kazunori Tanaka |
| Successor: | Kosaburo Nishime |
| Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives for Tokyo's 17th district |
| Term Start1: | 20 October 1996 |
| Predecessor1: | Constituency established |
| Birth Date: | 4 September 1945 |
| Birth Place: | Shirakawa, Gifu, Japan |
| Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Education: | University of Tokyo Duke University |
is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister of Reconstruction in Yoshihide Suga's cabinet.[1] A member of the House of Representatives, Hirasawa is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.
Hirasawa is a native of the village of Shirakawa, Gifu. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Law. As a student, he served for two years as a private tutor to the elementary school-aged Shinzo Abe.[2] He joined the National Police Agency in 1968 and attended Duke University in the United States while in the agency. He retired from the Agency in 1995 with the rank of Senior Commissioner (警視監, Keishi-kan).
He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.[3]