Suzu Hibana (火花 鈴; born March 3, 1902) is a Nichirian economist and lawyer serving as Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry under Shogun Masashi Miyamoto.
Hibana was born and raised in Kinshū (formerly Shin-Nichirin). Her father worked as a licensed customs broker at the port of Seitou; her mother, a mainland Nichirian, had relocated to the colony as a clerk with the Seitou Prefectural Office. Hibana attended Seitou Preparatory Academy before relocating to mainland Nichirin to attend the University of Shinkeisei, where she completed a Bachelor of Laws with a concentration in commercial and trade law. She joined Echigoya Trading's Shinkeisei office after graduation, working in customs compliance and import certification, and resigned after approximately one year to enter the Ministry of Finance. She was assigned to the Tax Bureau under Director-General Izumi Shizuhata, where over four years, she built seventeen successful fraud prosecutions concentrated in the shipping and import sectors, three of which resulted in the revocation of operating licenses from zaibatsu subsidiaries. She was appointed Deputy Director-General at twenty-six under Shizuhata's successor, Danno Takata, after Shizuhata was appointed Minister of Finance.
Following the death of Minister Kishibe Toda in February 1930, Minister of Finance Izumi Shizuhata proposed Hibana as his successor over the longer-serving deputy, Shūji Nakagawa. She was appointed Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry on August 4, 1930, at twenty-eight the youngest serving member of the cabinet. Colleagues have described her as possessing an attentiveness to people and institutional detail that extends well beyond her portfolio; Minister of Foreign Affairs Nariyoshi Miyagi, after a single prior meeting, noted that she had recalled his preference of tea six months later without being asked.