Kiichi Miyazawa
He was appointed finance minister in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa on 12 December 1992. Hayashi replaced Tsutomu Hata in the post. Hayashi's tenure ended on 9 August 1993 when Hirohisa Fujii became finance minister. Then he began to serve as the chairman of the Diet Members League for Sino-Japanese relations. In 2003 he ended his involvement in politics after serving at Diet ten times.