This collection contains the former collection of Kiichi Miyazawa (1919-2007), who served as the 78th Prime Minister of Japan.
The collection covers all of Miyazawa's important positions from the 1950s to the 2000s, and is comprised of approximately 7,000 items of original documents.
Miyazawa began his career as a secretary to Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, and after serving in such important positions as Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency, Minister of International Trade and Industry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Finance, he was appointed Prime Minister in 1991. After leaving office, he continued to be involved in government administration for half a century, serving as Minister of Finance and Minister of Finance in the Obuchi and Mori Cabinets. This is a first-rate collection of Miyazawa's unpublished diaries and memos in his own hand, diplomatic documents, policy materials including ministry and party internal documents, letters from important figures in Japan and abroad, and materials from conferences he participated in in Japan and abroad.
In particular, there is an abundance of diplomatic materials, not only from his time as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister, but also from all periods, including the peace talks with Japan in the 1950s, the Japan-US textile negotiations in the 1970s, and summits and international conferences from the 1990s onward. The database also contains valuable materials on economic policies, such as measures to deal with the post-bubble recession and the Asian currency crisis, and is a collection of historical documents that opens up new horizons in the fields of postwar Japanese politics, economics, and international relations.
As part of the "Modern and Contemporary Historical Documents Database," the database can be cross-searched with existing documents of successive prime ministers, such as "Kusuda Minoru Documents (documents of the official residence of Eisaku Sato)," "Documents related to Masayoshi Ohira," and "Documents related to Takeo Miki.