Iwao Uruma

Iwao Uruma (right) and Attorney General Akio Harada 2004

Iwao Uruma ( Japanese 漆 間 巌 , Uruma Iwao ; born April 19, 1945 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese politician and deputy chief cabinet secretary in the Asō cabinet .

Life

A graduate of Tokyo University Law School, Uruma worked for the National Police Department after graduating in 1969 . In 1980 he was sent to the Japanese embassy in the Soviet Union as a secretary . From 1987 he worked in a research department of the Defense Agency . He later headed the police forces in the prefectures of Nara (1989–1991), Aichi (1996–1999) and Osaka (2000–2001). In 2004 he was appointed head of the National Police Authority ( keisatsu-chō chō-kan , English Commissioner General ). He stayed in this position until 2007; he was succeeded by Hiroto Yoshimura .

After that, Uruma continued to work as an advisor ( komon ) for the police authority. In 2008 he was then General Director ( rijichō ) of the Foundation "Center for the Analysis of Traffic Accidents " ( 交通事故 総 合 分析 セ ン タ ー , kōtsū jiko sōgō bunseki sentā , English Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis , ITARDA). In September 2008 he was appointed Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat under Takeo Kawamura in the Asō cabinet. In the scandal surrounding the construction company Nishimatsu Kensetsu in spring 2009, which brought down the leader of the Democratic Party Ichirō Ozawa , Uruma had indicated that politicians from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party were deliberately not being investigated by investigators. Uruma apologized to the House of Commons Budgets Committee for his remarks after the media suspected the ruling party was influencing the investigators.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kantei : Brief CV (Japanese)
2. ↑ Yoshimura OK'd as next NPA chief. In: The Japan Times . August 11, 2007, accessed July 31, 2009 . 
3. ^ Uruma recalls no off-record biased remark. In: The Japan Times . March 10, 2007, accessed July 31, 2009 . 

Web links

• Kantei : Brief CV (English)