Kozo Igarashi

Kozo Igarashi
五十嵐 広三
Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 30 June 1994 – 8 August 1995
Prime Minister	Tomiichi Murayama
Preceded by	Hiroshi Kumagai
Succeeded by	Koken Nosaka
Minister of Construction
In office 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Prime Minister	Morihiro Hosokawa
Preceded by	Kishirō Nakamura
Succeeded by	Kōji Morimoto
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 22 June 1980 – 27 September 1996
Preceded by	Mitsugu Haga
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Hokkaido 2nd
Mayor of Asahikawa
In office 30 April 1963 – 30 September 1974
Preceded by	Maeno Yozabukichi
Succeeded by	Isamu Matsumoto
Personal details
Born	(1926-03-15)15 March 1926 Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Died	7 May 2013(2013-05-07) (aged 87) Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Political party	Socialist

Kozo Igarashi (五十嵐 広三, Igarashi Kōzō; 15 March 1926 – May 7, 2013) was a Japanese politician from Asahikawa, Hokkaido. He was the mayor of Asahikawa City from 1963 to 1974, member of the House of Representatives, construction minister in the Hosokawa Cabinet from 1993 to 1994, and chief Cabinet secretary in the government of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama from 1994 to 1995. In 1975 and 1979, Igarashi ran for governor of Hokkaidō as a united front candidate (JSP, JCP, Kōmeitō), but lost both elections to incumbent Naohiro Dōgakinai.

Death

On May 7, 2013, he died of pneumonia at age 87.^[1]

References

1. Ex-Chief Cabinet Secretary Igarashi dies at 87

House of Representatives (Japan)
Preceded by Four-member constituency	Representative for Hokkaidō 2nd district 1980-1996 Served alongside: Hiroshi Imazu and many others	Succeeded by District eliminated