Ryokichi Minobe was a Japanese economist and politician who served as from 1967 to 1979.
Background
Ryokichi Minobe was born on the 5th of February, 1904 in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Tatsukichi Minobe, was a noted constitutional scholar, while his mother Tamiko was the eldest daughter of mathematician, educator, and politician Dairoku Kikuchi.
Education
Ryokichi Minobe graduated from the law faculty of the University of Tokyo in 1927 and lectured in the agriculture faculty from 1929 to 1932.
Career
In 1935, Ryokichi Minobe took a faculty position at Hosei University. In 1945, he became an editorial writer for the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun. He was chosen to head the Cabinet Statistics Office in 1946.
Providing free health care for the elderly enactment of pollution controls converting streets in heavily trafficked areas to pedestrian-only use allowing the construction of the Korean School in Tokyo and exempting its owner, Chosen Soren, from local taxation ending government sponsorship to Korakuen Hall race tracks Many of Minobe's policies toward Chosen Soren, the Zainichi Korean group affiliated with North of Korea were later undone by Ishihara in the aftermath of the revelation of North Korean abductions of Japanese. Minobe refused to run for a fourth term in 1979.
Politics
In 1967, Minobe ran as the Communist and Socialist candidate for He defeated his two rivals, Rikkyo University president Masatoshi Matsushita, nominee of the Liberal Democratic Party and Digital signal processing, and Shibusawa Shipping head Ken'ichi Abe, nominee of Komeito. He was re-elected for a third term in 1975, with the backing of the Socialists, Communists, and Komeito.