Osanori Koyama
小山 長規
Member of the House of Representatives
ConstituencyFormer Miyazaki 2nd District
Minister of Construction
In office
July 18, 1964  June 3, 1965
Prime MinisterHayato Ikeda, Eisaku Satō
Preceded byIchirō Kōno
Succeeded byMitsuo Setoyama
Director General of Environment Agency (Minister of State)
In office
July 7, 1972  December 22, 1972
Prime MinisterKakuei Tanaka
Preceded byBuichi Ōishi
Succeeded byTakeo Miki
Personal details
Born(1905-06-10)June 10, 1905
Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
DiedJanuary 31, 1988(1988-01-31) (aged 82)
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo

Osanori Koyama (小山 長規, Koyama Osanori, June 10, 1905 – January 31, 1988) was a Japanese politician, a member of the National Diet and a Cabinet member.

Biography

He was born in Kobayashi, Miyazaki.[1][2] He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Daini-Kagoshima Middle School (now Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School) in 1923 and from Third Higher School (now Kyoto University) in 1926.[1]

In 1929, he graduated from Faculty of Law, Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo)[1][2] and joined Mitsubishi Bank.[1] Later, he served as the committee chairs of Mitsubishi Bank Employees' Union.[1]

He was first elected to a member of the House of Representatives in 1949[1] and was elected 12 times.[2] He served as Minister of Construction in the Cabinets of Hayato Ikeda and Eisaku Satō, Director General of Environment Agency in the Cabinet of Kakuei Tanaka, the chief of Judge Impeachment Court, and the Chairs of Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Committee on Budget of the House of Representatives.[1][2] He received the Grand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1976.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 小松 洋一, ed. (1982-03-12). 青少年への座右銘 新 現代宮崎の百人 (in Japanese). Japan: 育英出版社.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 日外アソシエーツ, ed. (October 2003). 新訂 政治家人名事典 明治~昭和 (in Japanese). Japan: 日外アソシエーツ.
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