Seijuro Arafune (荒舩清十郎, Arafune Seijūrō, March 9, 1907 - November 25, 1980) was a Japanese politician and a Minister of Transport.

He was a member of Liberal Democratic Party.

Arafune resigned the Minister of Transport 1966.

[3] He made a public speech at his home constituency regarding the death toll of Comfort women in 1965:[2] They (Korean) say Koreans were drafted by Japan during the war and taken from Korea to work, and those who worked well were used as soldiers, and 576,000 of those soldiers are now dead.

There are claims that 142,000 Korean comfort women are dead, killed by the Japanese military's sexual abuses.