Obuchi, Kiichi Miyazawa and Ryutaro Hashimoto. He was a director of NTT from 1986 to 1999. In 1998, he was appointed to head a panel examining reform of the Ministry of Finance. He was also chairman of the board of Asia University and the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery. Sejima also developed a close relationship with the military rulers of South Korea during the 1980s. Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul invited Sejima to Korea in 1980 in order to advise Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo "as a fellow man of the military." Sejima acted as a go-between for Nakasone in arranging an historic meeting with Chun in 1983. A committee led by Sejima erected a monument to Indian judge Radhabinod Pal at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine in 1997. Pal had been the dissenting judge in the guilty verdict handed down by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. In media Works by Sejima Works related to Sejima The novel Fumō Chitai, which has been adapted as a film and as two television series, is said to be based on the life of Sejima, although the author stated that she only borrowed the main character's progression (from the military to a prison camp to the postwar corporate world) from Sejima's life story. Sejima's role in Japan-Korea relations during the 1980s was depicted in the Korean television series 5th Republic. References External links Obituary in The Times, 26 September 2007 1911 births 2007 deaths People from Toyama Prefecture Imperial Japanese Army officers Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II Itochu people Siberian internees