Fujiyama Aiichirō

Fujiyama Aiichirō ( Japanese 藤 山 愛 一郎 ; born May 22, 1897 in Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture , † February 2, 1985 ) was a Japanese politician ( LDP , Fujiyama faction ) and businessman.

Career

Fujiyama, the son of the entrepreneur Fujiyama Raita ( Fujiyama Group : Dai-Nihon Seitō (English Dai-Nippon Sugar ), Nittō Kagaku Kōgyō (English Nitto Chemical Industry , today: Mitsubishi Rayon ), Nippon Columbia and others), broke his studies at Keiō University prematurely. He was President of Dai Nippon Sugar Manufacturing and General Manager of Nitto Chemical Industry. From 1941 he was president of Nihon Shōkōkai , the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a confidante of Kishi Nobusuke , Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Tōjō cabinet . After the end of the Second World War he was banned from office by the occupation authorities . After it was repealed, he represented Japan at a UNESCO meeting in Paris in 1951 . From 1951 to 1957 he was president of the Nihon Shōkōkai for the second time. In 1951 he also became the first chairman of Nihon Kōkū ( Japan Airlines ).

From 1957 to 1960 Fujiyama was under Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke ( Kishi faction ) Japanese foreign minister and in this function was involved in the new edition of the US-Japanese security treaty (English Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security ). In 1958 he moved as a member of parliament for the four-seat constituency Kanagawa 1, which included the city of Yokohama , with the highest percentage of votes in the Japanese House of Representatives (lower house) and was then re-elected five times. In the party he led his own faction , the Aiseikai ( 愛 正 会 ) and, beginning with the Kishi successor in 1960, ran for the election of the party leader several times , his best result he achieved in 1966 when Satō Eisaku ( Satō faction ) was re-elected, but he was defeated by 289 to 89 votes. Under Kishi's successor Ikeda Hayato ( Ikeda faction ) he was from 1961 to 1962 as head of the Economic Planning Office ( Keizai-kikaku-chō , English Economic Planning Agency ) Minister in the Cabinet, from 1963 to 1964 Chairman of the Executive Council of the party. Under the party chairman Satō Eisaku, he took over the management of the economic planning office again from 1965 to 1966. In the 1976 election, Fujiyama did not run for re-election as MP and withdrew from politics.

Honors

• 1960: Grand Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1967: Order of the Rising Sun 1st class
• 1985 (posthumous): Order of the Rising Sun 1st class "with shoulder ribbon" (today's order of the paulownia flower )

Web links

• Newspaper article about Fujiyama Aiichirō in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fujiyama Aiichirō in the digital edition of 日本人 名 大 辞典 , Kōdansha 2009.
2. ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Result of the 28th Shūgiin election, constituency Kanagawa 1  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Fujiyama is the family name, Aiichirō the first name.