minister of finance
Kiichi Miyazawa took which position from Nov 1987 to Dec 1988?
Kiichi Miyazawa Early life and education . Miyazawa was born into a wealthy , politically active family in Fukuyama , Hiroshima , on 8 October 1919 . His father was a member of the Diet and his grandfather a cabinet minister . He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in law . Career . In 1942 , he joined the ministry of finance , avoiding military service during World War II . In 1953 , he was elected to the upper house of the Diet of Japan , where he stayed until moving to the lower house in 1967 . Miyazawa held a number of prominent public positions , including minister of international trade and industry ( 1970–1971 ) , minister of foreign affairs ( 1974–1976 ) , director general of the economic planning agency ( 1977–1978 ) , and chief cabinet secretary ( 1984–1986 ) . He became minister of finance under the government of Noboru Takeshita in July 1986 . However , Miyazawa had to resign amid the Recruit scandal in 1988 . Prime minister . Miyazawa became Prime Minister on 5 November 1991 backed by his faction . Miyazawa gained brief fame in the United States when President George H . W . Bush vomited in his lap and fainted during a state dinner on 8 January 1992 . His government passed a law allowing Japan to send its forces overseas for peacekeeping missions as well as negotiating a trade agreement with the United States . It also introduced financial reforms to address the growing economic malaise in Japan in the 1990s . Miyazawa resigned in 1993 after losing a vote of no confidence marking an end to 38 years of Liberal Democratic Party government . The reason for the vote was a scandal involving Fumio Abe , a member of Miyazawas faction . The Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in June 1994 . Subsequent career . Miyazawa later returned to frontbench politics when he was once again appointed finance minister from 1998 to 2001 in the governments of Keizō Obuchi and Yoshirō Mori . In 1998 , Miyazawa replaced Hikaru Matsunaga as finance minister . He served a total 14 terms in both upper and lower houses before retiring from politics in 2003 . The reason for his retirement was that then prime minister Junichiro Koizumi set an age limit of 73 for LDP political candidates . Personal life . Miyazawa married while studying in the United States . He and his wife , Yoko , had two children : Hiro , an architect , and Keiko , who became wife of diplomat Christopher J . Lafleur . He published a book , entitled Secret Talks Between Tokyo and Washington , which was translated into English by Robert D . Eldridge in 2007 . The book is about Miyazawas views concerning the relationships between the US and Japan in terms of the political , economic , and security-related negotiations during the period of 1949 and 1954 . Death . Miyazawa died in Tokyo at the age of 87 on 28 June 2007 .