Moichi Miyazaki | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Native Name: | 宮崎 茂一 |
Alma Mater: | University of Tokyo |
Birth Date: | 15 February 1917 |
Birth Place: | Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan |
Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Constituency1: | Former Kagoshima 1st District |
Term Start1: | December 10, 1972 |
Term End1: | September 27, 1996 |
Office2: | Director General of the Science and Technology Agencyand (Minister of State) |
Term Start2: | December 27, 1988 |
Term End2: | June 2, 1989 |
Primeminister2: | Noboru Takeshita |
Predecessor2: | Soichiro Ito |
Successor2: | Kishirō Nakamura |
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). He graduated from Seventh Higher School Zoshikan in 1936 and from Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo) in 1939. In the year of his university graduation, he entered the Civil Engineering Bureau of Home Ministry. He served as the Director-Generals of some bureaus of Ministry of Transport in the 1960's.
He was first elected to a member of the House of Representatives of the National Diet in 1972 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.