Miyazawa Hiroshi

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Japanese soccer player, see Hiroshi Miyazawa (soccer player) .

Miyazawa Hiroshi ( Japanese 宮 澤 弘 ; born September 22, 1921 in Shibuya , Tokyo Prefecture ; † May 26, 2012 ) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) who was, among other things, governor of Hiroshima Prefecture and Minister of Justice.

Life

Miyazawa came from an influential family of politicians: his father Miyazawa Yutaka was a member of the House of Commons ( Shūgiin ), while his older brother Miyazawa Kiichi was Prime Minister of Japan between 1991 and 1993 . His son Miyazawa Yōichi also started a political career and was a member of both the lower house and the upper house ( Sangiin ) of the Japanese parliament ( Kokkai ).

After attending Musashi High School, he himself completed a law degree at the law faculty of the Imperial University (English Law School ), which he graduated in 1941 as a gakushi ( Bachelor ). After completing his studies and completing military service in the Imperial Japanese Navy , he briefly worked in the influential Ministry of Internal Affairs ( Naimu-shō ), which was dissolved in 1947 . In 1959 he became vice governor of Chiba Prefecture under Hitoshi Shibata , before he was a short-term official state secretary (English vice minister) in the Ministry of Self-Government ( Jichi-shō ) in 1973 .

On December 16, 1973, he succeeded Izuo Nagano as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, and during his tenure , which lasted until his replacement by Toranosuke Takeshita on October 29, 1981, he particularly campaigned for a stronger position for the governors.

After completing this activity, he was elected to Sangiin on November 30, 1981 in the by-election for the late Izuo Nagano in the Hiroshima prefectural constituency, and re-elected in the 1986 and 1992 regular elections. There he represented the prefecture until July 25, 1998. In the LDP, he joined his brother's Miyazawa faction .

On October 9, 1995, as part of a cabinet reshuffle , Miyazawa was appointed Justice Minister of Japan by Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi to succeed Tomoharu Tazawa and held that post until the end of Murayama's term on January 11, 1996.

In the 1998 Sangiin election , he decided not to run again and then withdrew from politics.

Web links

• 宮 沢 弘 氏 死去 (元 法相) atJiji Tsūshinsha(online version, accessed on May 29, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japanese Prefectures (rulers.org)
2. ↑ Japanese Ministeries (rulers.org)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Miyazawa is the family name, Hiroshi the first name.