石井一氏死去、８７歳　自治相など歴任

　羽田内閣で自治相兼国家公安委員長を務めた石井一（いしい・はじめ）氏が４日、東京都内で急性心不全のため死去した。８７歳だった。神戸市出身。葬儀は１８日午後１時から神戸市中央区下山手通８の１の１の本願寺神戸別院で。喪主は長男登志郎（としろう）氏。
　運輸政務次官当時の１９７７年、日本赤軍が日航機を乗っ取って同メンバーらの釈放を要求したダッカ事件で、政府派遣団長として人質解放交渉に当たった。
　６９年衆院選で旧兵庫１区に自民党から出馬し、初当選。衆院通算１１回当選。参院も１期務めた。９３年に自民党を離党し、新生党などを経て民主党に合流し、同党で選対委員長や副代表を歴任した。２０１３年参院選で落選し、政界を引退した。（2022/06/06-18:05）

Former Japanese home affairs minister Hajime Ishii died of acute heart failure in Tokyo on Saturday. He was 87.
   Ishii served in the now-defunct ministerial position and concurrently as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission under the administration of former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata.
   In 1977, when he was parliamentary vice minister of transport, Ishii led the Japanese government's delegation sent to negotiate for the release of hostages in the incident in which the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines plane and forced it to land in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.
   Ishii was elected to Japan's parliament for the first time in the 1969 House of Representatives election. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party at the time.
   After leaving the LDP in 1993, Ishii ended up in the Democratic Party of Japan, the predecessor of the current main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, after joining other parties.