Jitsuo Inagaki

Jitsuo Inagaki (稲垣 実男, Inagaki Jitsuo, March 28, 1928 – March 5, 2009) was a Japanese politician and cabinet member.

Inagaki was elected to his first term in the Japanese House of Representatives in 1977.^[1] 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.^[1]

Inagaki largely retired from politics after he was defeated for re-election in 2000.^[1] He was arrested in 2004 and charged with violating an investment law concerning his company for which he was convicted.^[1] He was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for five years, beginning in 2005.^[1]

Jitsuo Inagaki died at his home in Tokyo of a natural illness at the age of 80.^[1]

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