Career
Member, Saitama Prefectural Assembly
member, House of Councillors, from 1965;
chair standing commission on finance, House of Councillors, 1973-1974;
speaker, House of Councillors, since 1989;
Member of Parliament, vice minister for defense, 1970-1971;
minister of state, director general, Environmental Agency, 1979-1980. Vice chair public relations committee, deputy secretary general Liberal-Democratic Party.
