Riki Kawara

Riki Kawara
Riki Kawara
瓦力
	Official portrait, 1997
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
	In office; 5 October 1999 – 4 July 2000
Prime Minister	Keizō Obuchi
Preceded by	Hosei Norota
Succeeded by	Kazuo Torashima
	In office; 6 November 1987 – 24 August 1988
Prime Minister	Noboru Takeshita
Preceded by	Kurihara Yoshiyuki
Succeeded by	Kichirō Tazawa
Minister of Construction
	In office; 11 September 1997 – 30 July 1998
Prime Minister	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Preceded by	Shizuka Kamei
Succeeded by	Katsutsugu Sekiya
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; (Political affairs)
	In office; 17 July 1980 – 30 November 1981
Prime Minister	Zenkō Suzuki
Preceded by	Koichi Kato
Succeeded by	Yukihiko Ikeda
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 10 December 1972 – 21 July 2009
Constituency	Ishikawa 2nd (1972–1996); Ishikawa 3rd (1996–2005); Hokuriku-Shin'etsu PR (2005–2009)
Personal details
Born	1 April 1937; Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan
Died	13 January 2013 (aged 75); Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Chuo University

Tsutomu Kawara (瓦力, Kawara Tsutomu, 1 April 1937 – 13 January 2013) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party.