Seijuro Arafune

Seijuro Arafune
Seijuro Arafune
荒舩清十郎
	Arafune in 1953
Director-General of the Administrative Management Agency
	In office; 28 November 1977 – 7 December 1978
Prime Minister	Takeo Fukuda
Preceded by	Eiichi Nishimura
Succeeded by	Motohiko Kanai
	In office; 15 September 1976 – 24 December 1976
Prime Minister	Takeo Miki
Preceded by	Yūzō Matsuzawa
Succeeded by	Eiichi Nishimura
Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives
	In office; 14 January 1970 – 29 January 1972
Speaker	Funada Naka
Preceded by	Sensuke Fujieda
Succeeded by	Shirō Hasegawa
Minister of Transport
	In office; 1 August 1966 – 14 October 1966
Prime Minister	Eisaku Satō
Preceded by	Torata Nakamura
Succeeded by	Sensuke Fujieda
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 1 October 1952 – 25 November 1980
Preceded by	Tomiyuki Takada
Succeeded by	Eitaro Itoyama
Constituency	Saitama 3rd
	In office; 10 April 1946 – January 1947
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Constituency	Saitama at-large
Personal details
Born	9 March 1907; Chichibu, Saitama, Japan
Died	25 November 1980 (aged 73); Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Party	Liberal Democratic
Other political; affiliations	JLP (1946–1947); LP (1952–1955)
Alma mater	Meiji University

Seijuro Arafune (荒舩清十郎, Arafune Seijūrō; March 9, 1907 - November 25, 1980) 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.^[1]^[2]

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