Hachiro Okonogi

is a former Japanese politician who has served in the House of Representatives representing Kanagawa Prefecture. He also served in the Cabinet as Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission, Minister in charge of Building National Resilience, and Minister of State for Disaster Management from 2017 to 2018. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Early life Okonogi was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa. His father, Hikosaburo Okonogi, served in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1991.

Okonogi graduated from Tamagawa University in 1989 and worked as his father's assistant. Following his father's death in 1991, he was hired as secretary to Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe in 1992.

Political career Okonogi was elected for the first time in the 1993 general election, and was re-elected in the 1996 general election. He left the Cabinet following a reshuffle in October 2018.

Okonogi has been close to Yoshihide Suga for many years, having known Suga since elementary school, when Suga was in his 20s and serving as an aide to Okonogi's father. Suga mentored Okonogi in his first political campaign, and Okonogi served as Suga's campaign director during the 2020 LDP leadership election.