Toshio Ogawa
小川 敏夫
Vice President of the House of Councillors of Japan
In office 1 August 2019 – 3 August 2022
President	Akiko Santō
Preceded by	Akira Gunji
Succeeded by	Hiroyuki Nagahama
Minister of Justice
In office 13 January 2012 – 4 June 2012
Prime Minister	Yoshihiko Noda
Preceded by	Hideo Hiraoka
Succeeded by	Makoto Taki
Member of House of Councillors
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 July 1998
Constituency	Tokyo
Personal details
Born	(1948-03-18) 18 March 1948 (age 76) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	CDP
Other political affiliations	DP (2016–2018, split) DPJ (1996–2016, merger) NPS (1996)
Alma mater	Rikkyo University

Toshio Ogawa (小川 敏夫, Ogawa Toshio, born 18 March 1948) is a Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). Ogawa is a former Minister of Justice. A native of Nerima, Tokyo, and a graduate of Rikkyo University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1998 after working as a prosecutor.

Political career

In 1996, he ran for a lower house seat with support from the Democratic Party of Japan, but failed. In 1998, he ran for an upper house election, and was elected. In 2004, he again got elected in an upper house election. In 2012, he was appointed justice minister.^[1]

He was re-elected in 2004, 2010 and 2016, and is currently^[when?] the longest serving councillor from Tokyo. When the Democratic Party merged with Kibō no Tō to form the DPP in May 2018, Ogawa did not join the new party and decided to join the CDP instead.^[2]