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Teramoto Kosaku (寺本広作, August 29, 1907 - April 7 1992) was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat. After graduating from Tokyo University, he served in the Home Ministry working local affairs in Kochi, Ibaraki, Aomori, and Shimane prefectures." Teramoto was placed in Section V of the Special Higher Police, and was responsible for surveillance of extreme nationalists under the 1925 Peace Preservation Law. 2 Leveraging the chaos that ensued following the military defeat of Japan and occupation by American forces, Teramoto and his team at the Labor Standards Section of the Welfare Ministry drafted the Labor Standards Law of 1947. After presenting the law to occupation forces at GHQ, Teramoto misled otherwise unwilling politicians into adopting the bill by implying that the act was a non-negotiable reform insisted upon by the Americans. 3] He served three consecutive terms as governor of Kumamoto prefecture between 1959 and 1971,4 as well as two terms in the Japanese House of Councilors