Teijirō Furukawa

Teijirō Furukawa
古川 貞二郎
Official portrait, 2004
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
(Administrative affairs)
In office
24 February 1995  22 September 2003
Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama
Ryutaro Hashimoto
Keizo Obuchi
Yoshiro Mori
Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded byNobuo Ishihara
Succeeded byMasahiro Futahashi
Personal details
Born(1934-09-11)11 September 1934
Kasuga, Saga Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died5 September 2022(2022-09-05) (aged 87)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materKyushu University

Teijirō Furukawa (古川 貞二郎, Furukawa Teijirō; 11 September 1934 – 5 September 2022) was a Japanese official who served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1995 to 2003. As such he was the senior bureaucrat under five Prime Ministers. Before that he served as Administrative Vice Minister of Health and Welfare from 1993 to 1994.