Native name 黒木 博 Nationality Japanese | Cause of death Pneumonia Name Hiroshi Kuroki | |
Born 1907 Miyazaki, Japan Died December 24, 2001, Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan | ||
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Hiroshi Kuroki (黒木 博, Kuroki Hiroshi, 1907 - 24 December 2001) was a former governor of Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. He was the 1974 recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award for administrative originality in modernizing a backward prefecture in a manner congenial to the traditional minded yet attracting the young.
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In 1979, Kuroki was arrested and indicted on charges of accepting 30 million yen in bribes from a construction company during his sixth term in office as governor. He was sentenced to three years in prison but was subsequently acquitted in 1988.
He died of pneumonia at a hospital in Miyazaki on 24 December 2001, aged 94.
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