was a governor of

Miyazaki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Miyazaki Prefecture has a population of 1,073,054 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 7,735 km2 (2,986 sq mi). Miyazaki Prefecture borders Ōita Prefecture to the north, Kuma ...

in Japan. He was the 1974 recipient of

Ramon Magsaysay Award The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino: ''Gawad Ramon Magsaysay'') is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealis ...

for administrative originality in modernizing a backward prefecture in a manner congenial to the traditional minded yet attracting the young.

Career

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.

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Japanese civil servants People from Miyazaki Prefecture 1907 births 2001 deaths Date of birth missing Deaths from pneumonia in Japan {{Japan-bio-stub