Career
Member House Representatives for Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Chief secretary to cabinet to Premiers Yoshida and Sato. Minister of Labor, 1961—1962.
Minister of Health and Welfare, 1974. Minister of Transport, 1977—1978. Speaker House of Representatives, 1983—1984.
Chairman Liberal-Democratic Party Presidential Election Committee. Special envoy to United Nations, 1971. Chairman Tokyo meeting of International-Parliamentary Union.