Hidenao Nakagawa

Hideo Nakagawa
中川 秀直
Hidenao Nakagawa in 2000
Chief Cabinet Secretary and Director of the Okinawa Development Agency
In office 4 July 2000 – 27 October 2000
Prime Minister	Yoshirō Mori
Preceded by	Mikio Aoki
Succeeded by	Yasuo Fukuda
Director of the Science and Technology Agency and Chair of the AEC
In office 11 January 1996 – 7 November 1996
Prime Minister	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Preceded by	Yasuoki Urano
Succeeded by	Riichiro Chikaoka
Personal details
Born	(1944-02-02) 2 February 1944 (age 80) Tokyo
Children	Toshinao Nakagawa
Alma mater	Keio University

Hidenao Nakagawa (中川 秀直, Nakagawa Hidenao, born 2 February 1944) is a Japanese politician who is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and the House of Representatives of the Diet (parliament).