Takao Fujinami information

Takao Fujinami
Takao Fujinami
藤波孝生
Chief Cabinet Secretary
	In office; 27 December 1983 – 28 December 1985
Preceded by	Masaharu Gotōda
Succeeded by	Masaharu Gotōda
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
	In office; 27 November 1982 – 27 December 1983
Prime Minister	Yasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded by	Yukihiko Ikeda
Succeeded by	Toyohiko Mizuhira
Minister of Labour
	In office; 9 November 1979 – 17 July 1980
Prime Minister	Masayoshi Ōhira
Preceded by	Yūkō Kurihara
Succeeded by	Masayuki Fujio
Personal details
Born	December 3, 1932; Watarai District, Mie, Japan
Died	October 28, 2007 (aged 74); Mie Prefecture, Japan
Alma mater	Waseda University

Takao Fujinami (藤波孝生, Fujinami Takao) (December 3, 1932 – October 28, 2007) was a Japanese politician, former Chief Cabinet Secretary and House of Representatives member.

Born in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Fujinami was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1967 as a Liberal Democratic Party member, and was elected to the House of Representatives eleven times.

Fujinami first obtained a Cabinet post in 1979 as Labor Minister under Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira when he was serving his fifth term as a House of Representatives member.

When the Nakasone government began in 1982, Fujinami was given the post of deputy chief Cabinet secretary before becoming chief Cabinet secretary in 1983. Fujinami was seen as a prospective prime minister while serving in the post of chief Cabinet secretary from 1983 to 1985, under Prime Minister Nakasone. During his two years as chief Cabinet secretary, he helped promote Nakasone's policies, including his official visit to Yasukuni Shrine and the cancellation of the cap on Japan's defense budget of one percent of the gross national product. He also helped with Nakasone's administrative reforms, including the privatization of telephone operation and tobacco businesses.

Fujinami resigned due to his involvement in the Recruit Company shares-for-favor scandal in the late 1980s. After Nakasone left the post of prime minister in 1987 and returned to the head of an LDP faction, Fujinami supported him as secretary general of the faction.

In 1989, Fujinami was indicted on charges of accepting more than 40 million yen in money and unlisted shares as bribes from Recruit, a Tokyo-based job information conglomerate.^{[citation needed]} The Tokyo District Court acquitted Fujinami in 1994, but the Tokyo High Court reversed the decision in 1997, sentencing him to three years in prison, suspended for four years. The decision was finalized by the Supreme Court in 1999.

Fujinami retired from politics in 2003 citing health reasons. He died at a hospital in Mie Prefecture, according to the LDP.^[1]

Political offices
Preceded by Yūkō Kurihara	Minister of Labour 1979–1980	Succeeded by Masayuki Fujio
Preceded by Yukihiko Ikeda	Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary 1982–1983	Succeeded by Toyohiko Mizuhira
Preceded by Masaharu Gotōda	Chief Cabinet Secretary 1983–1985	Succeeded by Masaharu Gotōda
Party political offices
Preceded by Takami Eto	Chairman of the Diet Affairs Committee, Liberal Democratic Party 1985–1987	Succeeded by Kozo Watanabe

^ "Obituary: Takao Fujinami". The Japan Times. 29 October 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

[1] "Obituary: Takao Fujinami". The Japan Times. 29 October 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

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Takao Fujinami
藤波孝生

Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 27 December 1983 – 28 December 1985
Preceded by	Masaharu Gotōda
Succeeded by	Masaharu Gotōda
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 27 November 1982 – 27 December 1983
Prime Minister	Yasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded by	Yukihiko Ikeda
Succeeded by	Toyohiko Mizuhira
Minister of Labour
In office 9 November 1979 – 17 July 1980
Prime Minister	Masayoshi Ōhira
Preceded by	Yūkō Kurihara
Succeeded by	Masayuki Fujio

Personal details
Born	(1932-12-03)December 3, 1932 Watarai District, Mie, Japan
Died	October 28, 2007(2007-10-28) (aged 74) Mie Prefecture, Japan
Alma mater	Waseda University