Kiichi Miyazawa

78th Prime Minister of Japan (1919–2007)

Kiichi Miyazawa made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Kiichi Miyazawa as 78th Prime Minister of Japan (1919–2007).

Kiichi Miyazawa was born at Tokyo in 1919. His recorded nationality is Japan. He was educated at University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics and Musashi Senior High School.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

Kiichi Miyazawa is described as politician.

His affiliations include Ministry of the Treasury.

What survives of a political career is usually not the speeches but the institutions left behind.

His recorded fields of work are politics and government.

His work was formally recognised with the Order of the Rising Sun.

Working from Japan shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Death came in 2007, at 88. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.

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