Moichi Miyazaki Explained

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]

Biography

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.

Notes and References

  1. Book: 鶴岡 正夫 . September 1976 . 青少年の座右銘 現代鹿児島の百人 . Japanese . Japan . 育英出版社 . 166 .
  2. Web site: 昭和63年 原子力委員会月報 12月号(第33巻 第12号)「原子力委員会委員長の就任について」 - 原子力委員会 (Japanese Atomic Energy Commission) . Japanese . 2021-09-18.
  3. Book: 谷山市誌編纂委員会 . 1967 . 谷山市誌 . Japanese . Japan . 谷山市 . 1198.
  4. Web site: 「文部科学省の歴代大臣 第32代国務大臣科学技術庁長官 宮崎茂一」 - 文部科学省公式サイト(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Official Website) . Japanese . 2021-09-18.