Shunji Miyao

Shunji Miyao was born on 1 February 1868 in Niigata Prefecture, then part of Echigo Province. His father served as a village deputy headman. Miyao graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University in 1896.^[1][2]

After graduating, Miyao entered the Ministry of Finance in 1896 and passed the higher civil service examination the same year. He later served in Taiwan under the Japanese colonial administration, including in tax and monopoly posts, before moving to the Cabinet's Colonization Bureau.^[2][1]

Miyao subsequently became Civil Governor of the Kwantung Leased Territory in 1917, Governor of Aichi Prefecture in 1919, and the 16th Director-General of the Hokkaidō Agency in 1921.^[2][3] He served as Hokkaidō Agency Director-General from 27 May 1921 to 29 September 1923.^[3]

After the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, Miyao was appointed vice-president of the Imperial Capital Reconstruction Agency, serving under Gotō Shinpei and helping to oversee the reconstruction programme for Tokyo.^[1][4] Later in his career he served as president of the Tōyō Takushoku Company, was appointed to the House of Peers in 1934, and became a Tokyo city councillor in 1937.^[1]