Kenji Fukunaga | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | Speaker of the House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 26 December 1983 |
Term End: | 24 January 1985 |
Predecessor: | Hajime Fukuda |
Successor: | Michita Sakata[1] |
Office1: | Minister of Transport |
Primeminister1: | Takeo Fukuda |
Term Start1: | 28 November 1977 |
Term End1: | 7 December 1978 |
Predecessor1: | Hajime Tamura |
Successor1: | Kinji Moriyama |
Office2: | Minister of Health and Welfare |
Primeminister2: | Kakuei Tanaka |
Term Start2: | 11 November 1974 |
Term End2: | 9 December 1974 |
Predecessor2: | Kunikichi Saito |
Successor2: | Masami Tanaka |
Office3: | Chief Cabinet Secretary |
Primeminister3: | Eisaku Satō |
Term Start3: | 3 December 1966 |
Term End3: | 22 June 1967 |
Predecessor3: | Kiichi Aichi |
Successor3: | Toshio Kimura |
Office4: | Minister of Labour |
Primeminister4: | Hayato Ikeda |
Term Start4: | 18 July 1961 |
Term End4: | 18 July 1962 |
Predecessor4: | Hirohide Ishida |
Successor4: | Takeo Ōhashi |
Office5: | Chief Cabinet Secretary |
Primeminister5: | Shigeru Yoshida |
Term Start5: | 24 March 1953 |
Term End5: | 10 December 1954 |
Predecessor5: | Taketora Ogata |
Successor5: | Ryūtaro Nemoto |
Birth Date: | 5 August 1910 |
Birth Place: | Koka, Shiga, Japan |
Alma Mater: | Tokyo Imperial University |
was a Japanese politician who was Chief Cabinet Secretary on four separate occasions, and, as well as serving in various other cabinet positions, was also appointed as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan.[2] He was also seen as an influential voice within the Liberal Democratic Party.[3]
Fukunaga was born on 5 August 1910, in Koka, Shiga.[3] He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1933.[3]
After initially working in textiles, and rising to a management position, Fukunaga entered the world of politics and became deputy governor of Saitama Prefecture in 1947.[3] In 1949, Fukunaga stood for election and became the representative from Saitama 5th (a seat he retained 15 times).[2] [3]
In his early years in politics, Fukunaga received extensive political tutoring from Shigeru Yoshida, and became a protégé of his, serving in his cabinet twice as Chief Cabinet Secretary.[2] [3] He then reprised that role in the cabinet of Eisaku Satō, serving as Chief Cabinet Secretary twice more, while he briefly served as Minister of Labour in the interim period under Hayato Ikeda.[2] It was under Satō that Fukunaga came into his own, serving as Chair of the LDP General Council in the late 1960s, and playing a key role as a special ambassador in the Japanese government's response to the Lod Airport massacre.[3] [4] [5] [6]
In the 1970s, Fukunaga also served in the Tanaka and Fukuda cabinets, and a few years before his death was appointed Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, a post he retained until 1985.[2] [3] He remained a key figure within the party until his death.[3] Fukunaga passed away on 31 May 1988.[2]
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