Hideo Usui

Hideo Usui
臼井 日出男
Official portrait, 1999
Minister of Justice
In office
5 October 1999  4 July 2000
Prime MinisterKeizō Obuchi
Yoshirō Mori
Preceded byTakao Jinnouchi
Succeeded byOkiharu Yasuoka
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office
11 January 1996  7 November 1996
Prime MinisterRyutaro Hashimoto
Preceded bySeishirō Etō
Succeeded byFumio Kyūma
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
11 September 2005  21 July 2009
Preceded byKaname Tajima
Succeeded byKaname Tajima
ConstituencyChiba 1st
In office
22 June 1980  10 October 2003
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byKaname Tajima
ConstituencyFormer Chiba 1st (1980–1996)
Chiba 1st (1996–2003)
Personal details
Born (1939-01-03) 3 January 1939
Chiba, Chiba, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
ChildrenShoichi Usui
Alma materChuo University

Hideo Usui (臼井 日出男, Usui Hideo, born 3 January 1939) is a retired Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet. He served as Minister of Justice from 1999 to 2000.