Background
Kunio Nakagaki was born in 1911 in Kagoshima, Japan.
中垣 國男
Kunio Nakagaki was born in 1911 in Kagoshima, Japan.
Kunio Nakagaki studied at Kagoshima Prefectural Fisheries School.
Kunio Nakagaki served successively as manager of Hatamame Foods Production Company, permanent director of Aichi Tomato Growing Company, Transportation Machinery Manufacturing Plant of Osei Kogyo Company, Aichi Nishisan Securities Company, Aichi Commercial Company and Aichi Taiyo Kogyo Company and counselor of Aichi Tomato Raising Company. He was elected twice to House of Representatives in 1947 and was a President of Aichi Construction Company, and counselor of Kyokuyo Whaling Company, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Welfare from 1957.
Kunio Nakagaki was particularly known as an outstanding politician.
Kunio Nakagaki was a pro-death penalty activist and approved the executions of 33 people, including Matsuo Fujimoto and Ri Chinese'u, who became the basis for the film Death by Hanging.