"Dialogue with Famous Quotes" May 14. Shunichi Suzuki: "At every turning point, a man named Furui appears in various forms."

Shunichi Suzuki(November 6, 1910 (Meiji 43) - May 14, 2010 (Heisei 22)) was a Japanese politician and a Home Affairs and local governmentbureaucrat. He served as the 9th-12th Governor of Tokyo. He died at the age of 99.

Since joining the Ministry of Home Affairs in 1933 (Showa 8), he consistently engaged in work related to local administration for a total of 62 years: 26 years as a national public servant, 24 years as a Tokyo metropolitan public servant, and 12 years as a quasi-public servant. He served as Governor of Tokyo for 4 terms over 16 years. He was a person who lived his entire life as an active professional in the world of "officialdom."

From the time he entered university, he considered either joining the Ministry of Home Affairs to become a governor or becoming a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and after much thought, he joined the Ministry of Home Affairs as his third choice. The Ministry of Home Affairs, a comprehensive administrative agency that held immense power, was dismantled by GHQ, and Suzuki was its final personnel director.

When he took office as Governor of Tokyo in 1979, he was saddled with a deficit of 20 billion yen in the general account and 150 billion yen in public enterprises, totaling 350 billion yen. He created a prescription, implemented it, and achieved fiscal reconstruction. Internal reforms included cuts to staff numbers, reduction of retirement allowances, reduction of management positions, elimination of special duty allowances, restrictions on Silver Passes, revision of senior citizen benefits, and organizational restructuring..., etc.

Subsidies for private high schools.Loop line construction. Subway Line 12.Tama Toshi Monorail. Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. Tokyo Metropolitan University. International Forum.Tokyo Budokan. Kasai Rinkai Aquarium. Edo-Tokyo Museum. Tama Central Wholesale Market.Sister cities. Shinjuku sub-center.Tokyo Olympics.Earthquake countermeasures. Metropolitan housing. Waste recycling. Bridge construction.Ken-O Expressway.Rinkai Fukutoshin. Shuto Expressway.Teito Rapid Transit Authority. Metropolitan Television (MX Television).Haneda Airport offshore expansion.Osaka Expo..,,,,,, and other achievements.

Governor of Tokyo retirement was in 1995, so including his 8 years as Vice Governor from 1959 to 1967, he spent 24 years striving for the development of the capital, Tokyo, both internally and externally. He was originally from what is now Akishima City in the North Tama area, and he also put effort into resolving the disparity in the Three Tama areas. He was truly a living dictionary of local administration.Akishima City,Three Tama disparity resolution.

Suzuki was a sound bureaucrat and did not utter words that would wow the audience, but in the 475-page magnum opus "Living the Bureaucracy: Shunichi Suzuki Memoirs (Toshi Shuppan)," which was planned by Kazuki Kasuya and completed through an oral interview by Takashi Mikuriya, he says several interesting things.Takashi MikuriyaShunichi SuzukiMemoirs (Toshi Shuppan).

• "Although we gloss over it by calling it the 'end of the war,' it is clear that we lost the war," he says with a laugh. (It seems the word 'end of the war' rather than 'defeat' was indeed a deception.)End of the warEnd of the war

• "The single-seat constituency system cannot be adopted unless there is a reality where the party composition consists of two major parties or a few major parties." (The 1955 system was exactly that. The current political situation of opposition party fragmentation is likely not suitable for a single-seat constituency system.)Single-seat constituencySingle-seat constituency

"The Ministry of Finance is about money, the Ministry of Home Affairs is about people." The Ministry of Home Affairs had a culture of cultivating generalists who would become the core of local administration. As the term tribune of the people suggests, local regions are places where people carry out administration.

Regarding disaster prevention, he has expressed the view elsewhere that "It is only natural for citizens to protect their own safety themselves. Public institutions should only step in when the situation exceeds the scope of individual defense, and at the onset of a disaster, citizens must be prepared to think that 'the government will do nothing for us.'"

Governor of Tokyo election, I remember being surprised when he showed off his flexible body using Makko-ho exercises. Shunichi Suzuki passed away in 2010 at the age of 99. He fell just a few months short of becoming a 100-year-old centenarian. Even in this man's distinguished career, his boss from his younger days, Yoshimi Furui, appears repeatedly. Even a person of his stature consulted this mentor at every major turning point. It seems that everyone truly needs a 'master' to look up to.