* 1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

* 1919 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 2007 )

However, honours may be withheld due to misconduct or refusal on the part of the Prime Minister ( for example, Kiichi Miyazawa ).

* January 8 – George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.

In his visit to the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa remarked to former president Bill Clinton ( who had proposed international restriction on whaling ) that the Maruha Corporation's decision was reflective of Japan's change in attitude towards whaling.

He was aligned with the Kōchikai ( then called Ōhira ) faction of the LDP, which produced three Japanese Prime Ministers ; Masayoshi Ōhira, Zenkō Suzuki, and Kiichi Miyazawa.

Koizumi's grandson, Jun ' ichirō Koizumi, served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006 and inherited his grandfather's idea of postal privatization ; Junichiro had himself been Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in 1992-93 under Kiichi Miyazawa.

* Kiichi Miyazawa ( 1919-2007 ) Prime Minister 1991 – 1993.

He held cabinet posts again in 1992 ( Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in the Miyazawa cabinet ) and 1996 – 1998 ( Minister of Health and Welfare in the Uno and Hashimoto cabinets ).

Miyazawa held a number of prominent public positions, including Minister of International Trade and Industry ( 1970 – 71 ), Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1974 – 76 ), Director General of the Economic Planning Agency ( 1977 – 78 ), and Chief Cabinet Secretary ( 1984 – 86 ).

In 1991, he served as Minister of Finance under Kiichi Miyazawa.

* Hiroshi Miyazawa ( 1921 -) Minister of Justice

Miyazawa made her debut as a singer on 15 September 1989.

In early 1996 Miyazawa moved to Coastal California, but by May she was back on TV reporting from the Cannes Film Festival and later that year she appeared in two TV dramas: Hanayome Kaizoebito and Kyosokyoku.

It was written on the occasion of the premature death of his sister, Toshi Miyazawa ( 1898 – 1922 ).

It was written by the lead singer, Kazufumi Miyazawa, based on his impressions from visiting Okinawa for a photo shoot.

* February 5 – 6: Emerald City ComiCon ( Qwest Field Event Center, Seattle, Washington ) — guests include Adam Kubert, Jhonen Vasquez, Tony Harris, Josh Middleton, Travis Charest, Cary Nord, Steve McNiven, Mike Choi, Russ Heath, Michael Lark, David Finch, Eric Powell, Dustin Nguyen, Roy Thomas, Andy Owens, Drew Johnson, Pete Woods, Jason Pearson, Tim Sale, Brian Michael Bendis, Kurt Busiek, Robert Kirkman, Jim Cheung, Ed Brubaker, Sean Chen, Peter Bagge, Jim Woodring, Greg Rucka, Alex Maleev, Scott Kurtz, Crab Scrambly, Dexter Vines, Gail Simone, Jay Faerber, John Layman, Ford Gilmore, David Hahn, Matthew Clark, Tom Peyer, Karl Kesel, Rebecca Woods, Jeff Parker, Steve Lieber, Ron Randall, Paul Guinan, Steve Rolston, Takeshi Miyazawa, Dave Stewart, Matt Haley, Bill Schelly, and Steve Sadowski

He resigned in February 1991 and was replaced by Kiichi Miyazawa.

* Kiichi Miyazawa ( 1984 – 1986 ; later prime minister, 1991 – 1993 )

With the election of Miyazawa ( then leader of Kato's own faction ) in 1991, YKK gained greater prestige and power within the party.

Later, in the summer of 1993, when the Miyazawa government also failed to pass political reform legislation, thirty-nine LDP members joined the opposition in a no-confidence vote.

Miyazawa later returned to frontbench politics when he was once again appointed finance minister from 1998 to 2001 in the governments of Keizō Obuchi and Yoshirō Mori.

Miyazawa and Casero sing together in concert when Miyazawa tours Brazil and Argentina.

Miyazawa plays the sanshin, the Okinawan precursor to the shamisen, when singing Shima Uta in concert.

* 2012 – Hiroshi Miyazawa, Japanese politician ( b. 1921 )

The rise of disposable pop has been linked with the popularity of karaoke, leading to criticism that it is consumerist: Kazufumi Miyazawa of The Boom said " I hate that buy, listen, and throw away and sing at a karaoke bar mentality.

Succeeded by Hayato Ikeda, Kiichi Miyazawa, Sadakazu Tanigaki, Makoto Koga.

He was replaced as prime minister by Miyazawa Kiichi, a long-time LDP stalwart.

Former prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa ordered Japanese government agencies to reduce the rate of employees who had attended the university's law faculty to below 50 percent due to concerns about diversity in the bureaucracy.

He is also often compared to Kenji Miyazawa.

Miyazawa was born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, and graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in law.

Miyazawa resigned in 1993 after losing a vote of no confidence marking an end to 38 years of Liberal Democratic Party government.

Kiichi Miyazawa, left, meets in 1999 with U. S. Secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin.

At the time, Miyazawa was serving as minister of finance.

A supersymmetry relating mesons and baryons was first proposed, in the context of hadronic physics, by Hironari Miyazawa in 1966, but his work was ignored at the time.

In a 2003 interview for fRoots, Miyazawa explained that he got the idea for the song after speaking with Okinawan survivors of the US invasion of Okinawa during World War II.

In late 1992 Takanohana announced his engagement to actress Rie Miyazawa, news which sparked a similar amount of coverage to the royal wedding held that year.

Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel passed over Disraeli when putting together his government in 1841 and Disraeli, hurt, gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately adopting positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.

Prince Ranariddh and Hun Sen became First and Second Prime Ministers, respectively, in the Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ).

After initial Conservative opposition to Keynesian fiscal policy, this settlement was broadly accepted by all parties until Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

Prime minister Caambi El-Yachourtu became acting president until Djohar returned from exile in January, 1996.

LeBlanc retired in 1974 and was replaced by Patrick John who became the islands ' first Prime Minister.

* 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers ' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.

* 1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.

On 22 October, the Committee became the Democratic Government of Albania after a meeting in Berat and Hoxha was chosen as interim Prime Minister.

Kwame Nkrumah had become Ghana's first Prime Minister when the country became independent in 1960.

On 6 May 2004, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the first Turkish leader to visit Greece in fifty years.

On 14 October 1983, a power struggle within the government resulted in the house arrest of Bishop at the order of his Deputy Prime Minister, Bernard Coard who became Head of Government.

Thus Lord Aberdeen, a Peelite, became Prime Minister and headed a coalition ministry of Whigs and Peelites.

Britain became increasingly worried about the situation in Turkey and Prime Minister Aberdeen sent Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, a diplomat with vast experience in Turkey, as a special envoy to the Ottoman Empire to guard British interests.

She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs from 1974 to 1979 and became Norway's first, and to date only, female Prime Minister.

Brundtland became Norwegian Prime Minister for two subsequent terms: the first was from 9 May 1986 until 16 October 1989.

Under Mahathir bin Mohamad ’ s long Prime Ministership ( 1981 – 2003 ), Malaysia ’ s political culture became increasingly centralized and authoritarian, due to Mahathir's belief that the multiethnic Malaysia could only remain stable through controlled democracy.

In 1946, another of Zahir Shah's uncles, Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan, became Prime Minister and began an experiment allowing greater political freedom, but reversed the policy when it went further than he expected.

On 1 May, Taraki became President, Prime Minister and General Secretary of the PDPA.