Koken Nosaka

Koken Nosaka
1994
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office
8 August 1995  1 November 1996
Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama
Preceded byKozo Igarashi
Succeeded bySeiroku Kajiyama
Minister of Construction
In office
30 June 1994  8 August 1995
Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama
Preceded byYoshirō Mori
Succeeded byKōji Morimoto
Personal details
Born17 September 1924
Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Died18 April 2004(2004-04-18) (aged 79)
Yonago, Tottori, Japan
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Alma materHosei University

Koken Nosaka (野坂 浩賢, Nosaka Kōken; 17 September 1924 – 18 April 2004) was a Japanese politician. He was first elected to the Diet of Japan in 1972, representing the Tottori at-large district. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served as construction minister and chief cabinet secretary in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. Liberal Democratic Party politician Yōhei Kōno described Nosaka as "the main player" in forming the LDP-SDP coalition governments of the mid-1990s.