Kazuo Aoki ( 青木 一男, Aoki Kazuo; November 28, 1889 – June 25, 1982) was a bureaucrat and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan, serving as Minister of Finance, and Minister of Greater East Asia.
Most scholars believe that he was born in 660, on the basis of his Chinese prose "Chin'a Jiai-bun" recorded in the fifth volume of Man'yōshū as a work written in 733 (Tenpyō 5), in which he says, "In this year, I am 74." [1 ]
His literary career began in 1955, with his participation in a national writing contest, which resulted in the publication of Yuri no kioku ( 百合の記憶 ) under the pen name of Kazuo Aoki in the literary magazine Bungei.
Astronomie ho nadchla natolik, že se jí rozhodl věnovat profesně, a tak při ukončení studia Teoretické fyziky a astrofyziky na MU v Brně začal pracovat na Astronomickém ústavu AVČR v Ondřejově.