:Mikio Mizuta

Mizuta was born in 1905 in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture.{{cite web|title=House of Mikio Mizuta (Nationally Registered Cultural Assets)|url=http://www.city.kamogawa.lg.jp/EN/0006/0042/00001461_6_42.html|work=City of Kamogawa|accessdate=13 December 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20131213190347/http://www.city.kamogawa.lg.jp/EN/0006/0042/00001461_6_42.html|archivedate=13 December 2013|df=dmy-all}}[http://www.josai.jp/en/about/founder/ The Founder: Mikio Mizuta] Josai University. Retrieved 13 December 2013. He held a law degree from Kyoto Imperial University.

Mizuta was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 after World War II. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He was the minister of trade and industry from 23 December 1956 to 10 July 1957.{{cite book|title=Miti and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975|year=1982|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, CA|page=330|url=https://www.questia.com/read/24634210/miti-and-the-japanese-miracle-the-growth-of-industrial|author=Chalmers Johnson|isbn=|access-date=5 September 2017|archive-date=2 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202024649/https://www.questia.com/read/24634210/miti-and-the-japanese-miracle-the-growth-of-industrial|url-status=dead}}{{ISBN?}}

He served as the minister of finance for three terms.[http://www.rulers.org/japgov.html Finance Ministers of Japan] Rulers. Retrieved 13 December 2013.{{cite book|author=John Creighton Campbell|title=Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LGprzXUSp4C&pg=PA136|accessdate=13 December 2013|year=1980|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-04087-8|page=136}} He was first appointed to the post on 19 July 1960 and was in office until 18 July 1962. During this period Japan suffered a financial crisis running a deficit of $700m in July 1961. It fell on Mizuta to successfully negotiate short term loans with three American banks. Despite his nerves, he chain-smoked his way to a successful outcome using Japan's underlying financial strength as security.{{cite book|author=J. Robert Brown|title=The Ministry of Finance : bureaucratic practices and the transformation of the Japanese economy|year=1999|publisher=Quorum|location=Westport, CT|isbn=978-1567202304|page=58|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1567202306|edition=[Online-Ausg.]}}

Mizuta was the chair of the LDP policy research committee from July 1966 to December 1966 when he was again appointed finance minister.{{cite web|title=A Declining Technocratic Regime|url=http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/4AD5AF4732C0807FC1256C980035AA30/$file/nakamura.pdf|work=United Nations Research Institute for Social Development|accessdate=13 December 2013|author=Toshihiro Nakamura|format=Democracy, Governance and Human Rights Programme Paper Number 9|date=December 2002}} His second ministerial term lasted until 30 November 1968. From 12 January 1970 to 5 July 1971 he was again the chair of the LDP policy research committee. His third term as finance minister was between 5 July 1971 and 7 July 1972. From 25 November 1973 to 11 November 1974 Mizuta served again as the chair of the LDP policy research committee. Mizuta also as Special Envoy to attend Spanish Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Funeral.

He founded Josai University in 1965. He was the chancellor and president of it and the house member until his death on 22 December 1976.{{cite journal|author=Karl Dixon|title=The 1976 General Election in Japan|journal=Pacific Affairs|date=Summer 1977|volume=50|issue=2|pages=208–230|jstor=2756299|doi=10.2307/2756299}}{{cite web|title=A special event to remember our founder Mikio Mizuta|url=http://www.josai.jp/en/news/2008/20081221_e.html|work=Josai University|accessdate=13 December 2013|date=21 December 2008}}

The house where Mizuta was born in Kamogawa is a nationally registered asset and a public museum run by Josai University.

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