Kichirō Tazawa

Kichirō Tazawa (田沢 吉郎, Tazawa Kichirō, 1918 – 12 December 2001) was a Japanese politician. He held different cabinet posts and served as defense minister from 1988 to 1989.

Kichirō Tazawa
田澤 吉郎
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office
24 August 1988 – 3 June 1989
Prime MinisterNoboru Takeshita
Preceded byTsutomu Kawara
Succeeded byTaku Yamasaki
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
In office
30 November 1981 – 26 November 1982
Prime MinisterZenko Suzuki
Preceded byTakao Kameoka
Succeeded byIwazo Kaneko
Head of the National Land Agency
In office
24 December 1976 – 28 November 1977
Prime MinisterTakeo Fukuda
Preceded byKosei Amano
Succeeded byYoshio Sakurauchi
Personal details
Born(1918-01-01)1 January 1918
Inakadate, Empire of Japan
Died12 December 2001(2001-12-12) (aged 83)
Hirosaki
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
Alma materWaseda University

Early life

Tazawa was born in 1918.[1] He was a native of Inakadate, Aomori Prefecture.[1][2]

Career

Tazawa was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.[3] He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1960 and served there until 1996 when he lost his seat in the election.[3] From 24 December 1976 to 28 November 1977 he was the director of national land agency.[4]

He was appointed minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries on 30 November 1981 in a cabinet reshuffle and succeeded Takeo Kameoka in the post.[5] The cabinet was headed by Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki.[5] Tazawa was in office until 26 November 1982.[5] He was appointed minister of state and director-general of the Japan Defense Agency (today defense minister) on 24 August 1988 to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.[6] He replaced Tsutomu Kawara in the post who had resigned from office.[7] Tazawa retained his post in the late December 1988 reshuffle.[6] He was in office until 3 June 1989 when Taku Yamasaki was appointed to the post. Tazawa retired from politics and was appointed president of Hirosaki Gakuin University.[3] He served in the post until his death in 2001.[3]

Personal life and death

Tazawa's wife managed a large farm in Aomori which is one of the significant agricultural and fishing regions in Japan.[2] Tazawa died of esophagus cancer at a hospital in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on 12 December 2001.[8]

References
  1. "田沢 吉郎". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. "US stake in Japanese trade; How Japan's farmers block imports". The Christian Science Monitor. 25 March 1982. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  3. "Ex-LDP politician Tazawa dies at 83". Japan Policy & Politics. 13 December 2001. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  4. Janet Hunter, ed. (1984). Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-520-04390-9.
  5. "Cabinet". Colombus. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  6. "Cabinet shuffled in Japan". Chicago Sun-Times. 28 December 1988. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013. – via Highbeam (subscription required)
  7. "Japan's Military Chief Quits". Los Angeles Times. 25 August 1988. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  8. "Obituary: Kichiro Tazawa". The Japan Times. 14 December 2001. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
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