Hiranao Honda (本多 平直, Honda Hiranao, born 2 December 1964) is a former Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
Honda first ran for office in the 2003 election as the DPJ candidate for the Saitama 12th district, losing against the incumbent Toshio Masuda.
[3] After being replaced by Toshikazu Morita as the DP candidate for Saitama-12th for the 2017 election, Honda moved to the Hokkaido 4th district which encompasses parts of his hometown Sapporo.
While losing against the incumbent Hiroyuki Nakamura, Honda obtained enough votes to be elected through the CDP's PR block list.
In late July 2021, it was reported that during a closed Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) meeting convened to discuss raising the age of consent from 13 to 16, Hiranao Honda said that, as a man in his 50s, he thought that it is “strange” that he might be arrested if he had sex with a 14-year-old girl who consented to the act.