Seijuro Arafune
Seijuro Arafune | |
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荒舩 清十郎 | |
Arafune in 1953 | |
| Director-General of the Administrative Management Agency | |
| In office 28 November 1977 – 7 December 1978 | |
| Prime Minister | Takeo Fukuda |
| Preceded by | Eiichi Nishimura |
| Succeeded by | Motohiko Kanai |
| In office 15 September 1976 – 24 December 1976 | |
| Prime Minister | Takeo Miki |
| Preceded by | Yūzō Matsuzawa |
| Succeeded by | Eiichi Nishimura |
| Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 14 January 1970 – 29 January 1972 | |
| Speaker | Funada Naka |
| Preceded by | Sensuke Fujieda |
| Succeeded by | Shirō Hasegawa |
| Minister of Transport | |
| In office 1 August 1966 – 14 October 1966 | |
| Prime Minister | Eisaku Satō |
| Preceded by | Torata Nakamura |
| Succeeded by | Sensuke Fujieda |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 1 October 1952 – 25 November 1980 | |
| Preceded by | Tomiyuki Takada |
| Succeeded by | Eitaro Itoyama |
| Constituency | Saitama 3rd |
| In office 10 April 1946 – January 1947 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Multi-member district |
| Constituency | Saitama at-large |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 March 1907 |
| Died | 25 November 1980 (aged 73) Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
| Other political affiliations | JLP (1946–1947) LP (1952–1955) |
| Alma mater | Meiji University |
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Seijuro Arafune (荒舩 清十郎, Arafune Seijūrō; March 9, 1907 - November 25, 1980) was a Japanese politician and a Minister of Transport. He was a member of Liberal Democratic Party. Arafune resigned the Minister of Transport 1966 after a political scandal where he had taken two businessmen with him on a trip paid for by the Japanese govermnement, and ordered the National Railways to create an express stop in his home town.