Jitsuo Inagaki

Who was Jitsuo Inagaki?

Jitsuo Inagaki was a Japanese politician and cabinet member.

Inagaki was elected to his first term in the Japanese House of Representatives in 1977. He joined the cabinet under former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto during the 1990s, where he served as the head of the Hokkaidō and Okinawa development agencies.

Inagaki largely retired from politics after he was defeated for re-election in 2000. He was arrested in 2004 and charged with violating an investment law concerning his company for which he was convicted. He was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for five years, beginning in 2005.

Jitsuo Inagaki died at his home in Tokyo of a natural illness at the age of 80.