Hiromu Nonaka
Hiromu Nonaka | |
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野中 廣務 | |
Official portrait, 1998 | |
| Head of the Okinawa Development Agency | |
| In office 14 January 1999 – 5 October 1999 | |
| Prime Minister | Keizo Obuchi |
| Preceded by | Kichio Inoue |
| Succeeded by | Mikio Aoki |
| Chief Cabinet Secretary | |
| In office 5 October 1998 – 30 July 1999 | |
| Prime Minister | Keizo Obuchi |
| Preceded by | Kanezo Muraoka |
| Succeeded by | Mikio Aoki |
| Minister of Home Affairs | |
| In office 30 June 1994 – 8 August 1995 | |
| Prime Minister | Tomiichi Murayama |
| Preceded by | Hajime Ishii |
| Succeeded by | Takashi Fukaya |
| Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission | |
| In office 30 June 1994 – 8 August 1995 | |
| Prime Minister | Tomiichi Murayama |
| Preceded by | Hajime Ishii |
| Succeeded by | Takashi Fukaya |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 8 August 1983 – 10 October 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | Hideo Tanaka |
| Constituency | Kyoto 2nd (1983–1996) Kyoto 4th (1996–2003) |
| Member of the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly | |
| In office 23 April 1967 – May 1978 | |
| Constituency | Funai District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 October 1925 Sonobe, Kyoto, Japan |
| Died | 26 January 2018 (aged 92) Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
Hiromu Nonaka (野中 廣務, Nonaka Hiromu; 20 October 1925 – 26 January 2018) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Nonaka served as a local politician in Kyoto Prefecture from 1951 to 1978 and in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2003, becoming one of its most prominent members in the 1990s. Nonaka served as Minister of Home Affairs and Head of the National Public Safety Commission from 1994 to 1995, as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1998 to 1999, and as Head of the Okinawa Development Agency in 1999. Nonaka was widely considered as a voice of reason within the Liberal Democratic Party and viewed by some as the most powerful person in Japan during the mid-to-late 1990s.