Seijuro Arafune

was a Japanese politician and a Minister of Transport. He was a member of Liberal Democratic Party. Arafune resigned the Minister of Transport 1966 after a political scandal where he had taken two businessmen with him on a trip paid for by the Japanese govermnement, and ordered the National Railways to create an express stop in his home town.

Biography

Arafune was born in Katashino village, Chichibu District, Saitama currently Chichibu, Saitama in 1907.

• April 11, 1946 - November 24, 1980 Member of the House of Representatives
• August 1, 1966 - October 14, 1966 Minister of Transport
• January 14, 1970 - January 29, 1972 Vice-Speaker of the House of Representatives

See also

• Order of the Rising Sun

References