Kiichi Miyazawa (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press, 2001)
Kiichi Miyazawa, who, as prime minister and holder of many other top government posts, helped guide Japan from postwar ruin to economic superpower, died yesterday at his home in Tokyo. He was 87.
Shigeru Muta, an aide to Mr. Miyazawa’s nephew, Yoichi Miyazawa, a Japanese lawmaker, announced the death, The Associated Press reported.
Mr. Miyazawa emerged from a wealthy and politically powerful family to attain influence as an aide to policy makers who fashioned Japan’s immediate postwar recovery and went on to ...
