Yoshio Hachiro (鉢呂 吉雄, Hachiro Yoshio, born 25 January 1948) is a former Japanese politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party who served as a member of the House of Councillors and the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

A native of Kabato District, Hokkaidō and graduate of Hokkaido University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as an independent.

In the same year he ran for the Hokkaido 4th district in the House of Representatives and was elected.

[1] He resigned after being criticised for making controversial comments during his visit to the exclusion zone of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 9 September.

He compared the vicinity of the plant to a ghost town,[2] and on the previous day, jokingly mimicked rubbing his jacket on a journalist while telling him "I'll give you radiation.