Takao Fujinami

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Takao Fujinami
藤波 孝生
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 27 December 1983 – 28 December 1985
Preceded by	Masaharu Gotōda
Succeeded by	Masaharu Gotōda
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 27 November 1982 – 27 December 1983
Prime Minister	Yasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded by	Yukihiko Ikeda
Succeeded by	Toyohiko Mizuhira
Minister of Labour
In office 9 November 1979 – 17 July 1980
Prime Minister	Masayoshi Ōhira
Preceded by	Yūkō Kurihara
Succeeded by	Masayuki Fujio
Personal details
Born	(1932-12-03)December 3, 1932 Watarai District, Mie, Japan
Died	October 28, 2007(2007-10-28) (aged 74) Mie Prefecture, Japan
Alma mater	Waseda University

Takao Fujinami (藤波 孝生, Fujinami Takao) (December 3, 1932 – October 28, 2007) was a Japanese politician, former

member.

Born in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Fujinami was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1967 as a Liberal Democratic Party member, and was elected to the House of Representatives eleven times.

Fujinami first obtained a Cabinet post in 1979 as

when he was serving his fifth term as a House of Representatives member.

When the

businesses.

Fujinami resigned due to his involvement in the

secretary general

of the faction.

In 1989, Fujinami was indicted on charges of accepting more than 40 million yen in money and unlisted shares as bribes from Recruit, a Tokyo-based job information conglomerate.^{[citation needed]} The Tokyo District Court acquitted Fujinami in 1994, but the Tokyo High Court reversed the decision in 1997, sentencing him to three years in prison, suspended for four years. The decision was finalized by the Supreme Court in 1999.

Fujinami retired from politics in 2003 citing health reasons. He died at a hospital in Mie Prefecture, according to the LDP.^[1]

Political offices
Preceded by Yūkō Kurihara	Minister of Labour 1979–1980	Succeeded by Masayuki Fujio
Preceded by Yukihiko Ikeda	Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary 1982–1983	Succeeded by Toyohiko Mizuhira
Preceded by Masaharu Gotōda	Chief Cabinet Secretary 1983–1985	Succeeded by Masaharu Gotōda
Party political offices
Preceded by Takami Eto	Chairman of the Diet Affairs Committee, Liberal Democratic Party 1985–1987	Succeeded by Kozo Watanabe

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