[1] After his death, he was conferred the Junior Third Rank, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics, Kakizawa worked as a bureaucrat within the Ministry of Finance before entering politics.

[1] Kakizawa then left the NLC in order to join the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

[1] He continued to serve a total of seven terms within the Japanese House of Representatives until his retirement in 2003.

[1] Koji Kakizawa died of esophagus cancer on January 27, 2009, at the age of 75 at a hospital in Tokyo.