Mineo Miyawaki appointed Deputy Librarian

Mineo Miyawaki was appointed Deputy Librarian of the National Diet Library as of March 21, 1997 to succeed Hiroshi Imon who retired the same day.

Mr. Mineo Miyawaki was born on June 24, 1938. He graduated from Rikkyo University in law in 1965. Since he joined the National Diet Library in April of the same year, he successively served in the Reference and Bibliography Department and the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau up to 1985. His supervisory career started in January 1986 with his appointment as Chief of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau. Since then he has held such administrative posts as Chief of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division and the Legislative Reference and Coordinating Division of the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau, the Personnel Division and the Administrative Division, Deputy Director of the Administrative Department, and Director of the Special Materials Department. He was Director of the Administrative Department from March 1995 until his appointment as Deputy Librarian.

Between September and December 1978, he visited India, the US, the UK, the Federal Republic of Germany, France and Sweden to conduct research on security problems and armament reduction in the UN and various countries. He also went on an official trip to the UK in August 1987, to Malaysia and Thailand in November 1992 to participate in the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania and inspect the National Library of Thailand, and to the US from November to December 1993 to coordinate with certain institutions on the acquisition of materials concerning Japanese immigrants and the Allied Occupation of Japan.

Senior Staff for International Cooperation Changed

As part of regular staff transfer, new staffers came to the Library Cooperation Department as of April 1, 1997.

Mr. Fumihisa Nakagawa, former Director, Detached Library in the Diet, succeeded Mr. Kunihiko Shimada as Director, Library Cooperation Department. Mr. Akira Kado succeeded Mr. Takao Murayama as Chief, International Cooperation Division, Library Cooperation Department.