was a Japanese politician, a member of the National Diet and a Cabinet member. He was a bureaucrat of

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, Economic Planning Agency, and

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before he became a politician.

Biography

He was born in

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(now part of

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City), Kagoshima Prefecture. 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

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). He graduated from Seventh Higher School Zoshikan in 1936 and from Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Imperial University (now

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) in 1939. In the year of his university graduation, he entered the Civil Engineering Bureau of

. He served as the Director-Generals of some bureaus of

in the 1960's. He was first elected to a member of the

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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

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from December 27, 1988 to June 2, 1989. He also served as the Chairs of the Committee on Judicial Affairs and the Committee on Communications of the House of Representatives.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miyazaki, Moichi 20th-century Japanese politicians Government ministers of Japan Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Politicians from Kagoshima Prefecture University of Tokyo alumni Kagoshima University alumni People from Kagoshima 1917 births 2004 deaths