吉野良彦氏死去　元大蔵次官、９１歳

　吉野　良彦氏（よしの・よしひこ＝元大蔵事務次官、元日本開発銀行〈現日本政策投資銀行〉総裁）７月２６日死去、９１歳。葬儀は近親者で済ませた。
　１９５３年東大法卒。大蔵省（現財務省）に入り、官房長、主計局長を経て、８６年から２年間、事務次官を務めた。中曽根内閣で消費税の前身として検討された「売上税」をめぐり、政府や自民党との調整を主導。竹下内閣の下で８９年４月に消費税が導入される道筋を付けた。（2022/08/02-15:16）

Former Japanese Vice Minister of Finance Yoshihiko Yoshino, who also served as president of the Japan Development Bank, now the Development Bank of Japan, died on July 26, it was learned Tuesday. He was 91.
   After entering the Finance Ministry, Yoshino assumed such posts as director-general of the finance minister's Secretariat and director-general of the ministry's Budget Bureau.
   He later served as vice minister of finance for two years from 1986.
   Over a "sales tax" considered under the cabinet of the late former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Yoshino negotiated with the government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, paving the way for introducing the consumption tax in April 1989 under the cabinet of the late former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.