Kiichi Miyazawa

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Kiichi Miyazawa
宮澤 喜一
Official portrait, 1991
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 5 November 1991 – 9 August 1993
Monarch	Akihito
Preceded by	Toshiki Kaifu
Succeeded by	Morihiro Hosokawa
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
In office 31 October 1991 – 29 July 1993
Vice President	Shin Kanemaru
Secretary-General	Tamisuke Watanuki Seiroku Kajiyama
Preceded by	Toshiki Kaifu
Succeeded by	Yōhei Kōno
Ministerial offices Minister of Finance In office 30 July 1998 – 26 April 2001 Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi Yoshiro Mori Preceded by Hikaru Matsunaga Succeeded by Masajuro Shiokawa In office 22 July 1986 – 9 December 1988 Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone Noboru Takeshita Preceded by Noboru Takeshita Succeeded by Noboru Takeshita (acting) Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries In office 4 August 1993 – 9 August 1993 Prime Minister Himself Preceded by Masami Tanabu Succeeded by Eijiro Hata [jp] Minister of Posts and Telecommunications In office 20 July 1993 – 9 August 1993 Prime Minister Himself Preceded by Junichiro Koizumi Succeeded by Takenori Kanzaki Chief Cabinet Secretary In office 17 July 1980 – 27 November 1982 Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki Preceded by Masayoshi Ito Succeeded by Masaharu Gotōda Director General of the Economic Planning Agency In office 27 November 1977 – 7 December 1978 Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda Preceded by Tadashi Kuranari Succeeded by Tokusaburo Kosaka [jp] In office 3 December 1966 – 30 November 1968 Prime Minister Eisaku Sato Preceded by Eisaku Sato (acting) Succeeded by Wataro Kanno In office 18 July 1962 – 18 July 1964 Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda Preceded by Hayato Ikeda (acting) Succeeded by Mamoru Takahashi Minister of Foreign Affairs In office 9 December 1974 – 15 September 1976 Prime Minister Takeo Miki Preceded by Toshio Kimura Succeeded by Zentaro Kosaka Minister of International Trade and Industry In office 14 January 1970 – 5 July 1971 Prime Minister Eisaku Sato Preceded by Masayoshi Ohira Succeeded by Kakuei Tanaka
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 29 January 1967 – 10 October 2003
Constituency	Hiroshima 3rd (1967–1996) Hiroshima 7th (1996–2000) Chūgoku PR (2000–2003)
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 3 May 1953 – 1 June 1965
Preceded by	Gishin Yamashita
Succeeded by	Masaaki Fujita
Constituency	Hiroshima at-large
Personal details
Born	(1919-10-08)8 October 1919 Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Died	28 June 2007(2007-06-28) (aged 87) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Spouse	Yoko Miyazawa
Children	2
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University
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Kiichi Miyazawa (宮澤 喜一, Miyazawa Kiichi, 8 October 1919 – 28 June 2007^[1]) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993.

Born in Tokyo,^[2] Miyazawa graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a law degree, and in 1942 joined the Ministry of Finance. He was first elected to the National Diet in 1953 and held a number of prominent posts, including international trade and industry minister under Eisaku Sato, foreign minister under Takeo Miki, director of the Economic Planning Agency under Takeo Fukuda, chief cabinet secretary under Yasuhiro Nakasone, and finance minister under Noboru Takeshita. Miyazawa became prime minister in 1991, but was forced to resign after the 1993 election after a failure to pass political reforms caused his Liberal Democratic Party to face its first defeat in a national election since its formation in 1955. Miyazawa later returned as finance minister from 1999 to 2002 in the cabinets of Keizō Obuchi and Yoshirō Mori.