Taku Yamasaki

Taku Yamasaki
山﨑 拓
Yamasaki in 2005
Minister of Construction
In office 5 November 1991 – 12 December 1992
Prime Minister	Kiichi Miyazawa
Preceded by	Yūji Ōtsuka
Succeeded by	Kishirō Nakamura
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office 3 June 1989 – 10 August 1989
Prime Minister	Sōsuke Uno
Preceded by	Kichirō Tazawa
Succeeded by	Jūrō Matsumoto
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political affairs)
In office 1 November 1984 – 28 December 1985
Prime Minister	Yasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded by	Toyohiko Mizuhira
Succeeded by	Shunjirō Karasawa
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 24 April 2005 – 21 July 2009
Preceded by	Junichiro Koga
Succeeded by	Shūji Inatomi
Constituency	Fukuoka 2nd
In office 10 December 1972 – 10 October 2003
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Junichiro Koga
Constituency	Fukuoka 1st (1972–1996) Fukuoka 2nd (1996–2003)
Member of the Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly
In office 23 April 1967 – 7 December 1969
Constituency	Fukuoka City Sawara Ward
Personal details
Born	(1936-12-11) 11 December 1936 (age 88) Dalian, Kwantung, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Waseda University

Taku Yamasaki (山崎 拓, Yamasaki Taku, born December 11, 1936) is a retired Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2009.^[1] He directed the Director General of the Japan Defense Agency for two months in 1989, and served as Minister of Construction from 1991 to 1992. He was a prominent faction leader in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and served as its Secretary-General and Vice President under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.