Hiroshi Kuroki | |
Native Name: | 黒木 博 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Birth Date: | 1907 |
Birth Place: | Miyazaki, Japan |
Death Date: | 24 December 2001 (age 94) |
Death Place: | Miyazaki, Japan |
Nationality: | Japanese |
was a governor of Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. He was the 1974 recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award for administrative originality in modernizing a backward prefecture in a manner congenial to the traditional minded yet attracting the young.[1]
In 1979, Kuroki was arrested and indicted on charges of accepting 30 million yen in bribes from a construction company during his sixth term in office as governor. He was sentenced to three years in prison but was subsequently acquitted in 1988.
He died of pneumonia at a hospital in Miyazaki on 24 December 2001, aged 94.[2]