Moichi Miyazaki | |
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宮崎 茂一 | |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
In office December 10, 1972 – September 27, 1996 | |
Constituency | Former Kagoshima 1st District |
Director General of the Science and Technology Agencyand (Minister of State) | |
In office December 27, 1988 – June 2, 1989 | |
Prime Minister | Noboru Takeshita |
Preceded by | Soichiro Ito |
Succeeded by | Kishirō Nakamura |
Personal details | |
Born | Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan | February 15, 1917
Died | February 16, 2004 | (aged 87)
Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Moichi Miyazaki (宮崎 茂一, Miyazaki Moichi, February 15, 1917 – February 16, 2004) was a Japanese politician, a member of the National Diet and a Cabinet member. He was a bureaucrat of Home Ministry, Economic Planning Agency, and Ministry of Transport before he became a politician.[1][2]
He was born in Taniyama (now part of Kagoshima City), Kagoshima Prefecture.[3] In 1933, he finished Kagoshima Prefectural Daini-Kagoshima Middle School (now Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School) in the fourth grade of five-year course to advance on to Seventh Higher School Zoshikan (now Kagoshima University).[1] He graduated from Seventh Higher School Zoshikan in 1936[1] and from Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo) in 1939.[1][2] In the year of his university graduation, he entered the Civil Engineering Bureau of Home Ministry.[1][2] He served as the Director-Generals of some bureaus of Ministry of Transport in the 1960's.[1]
He was first elected to a member of the House of Representatives of the National Diet in 1972[1] and was elected 8 times. He served as Director General of the Science and Technology Agency in the Cabinet of Noboru Takeshita from December 27, 1988 to June 2, 1989.[4] He also served as the Chairs of the Committee on Judicial Affairs and the Committee on Communications of the House of Representatives.[2]