Adachi Kenzō

Adachi Kenzō

Adachi Kenzō ( Japanese 安達 謙 蔵 ; born November 22, 1864 in Kumamoto ; died August 2, 1948 ) was a Japanese politician during the Meiji , Taishō, and early Shōwa periods .

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Adachi Kenzō came from Kumamoto. He worked as a reporter and founded several newspapers in Korea. In 1895 he was involved in the murder of the Korean Queen Min, but was acquitted. - He was a founding member of the “National Party” (国 権 党) of Kumamoto and from 1902 a member of the Reichstag, into which he was re-elected 14 times. From 1913 he was active in the Rikken Dōshikai and later a leading member of the Kenseikai and Minseitō . Adachi's more political zigzag course earned him the nickname "God of Elections" (選 挙 の 神 様, Senkyō no kamisama).

Adachi was communications minister from 1925 to 1927, first in the Katō Takaaki cabinet and then in the 1st Wakatsuki cabinet and from 1929 to 1931 interior minister in the 2nd Wakatsuki cabinet . When he worked with the militarists after the Mukden incident and advocated a "cabinet of national unity", clashes broke out in the incumbent Wakatsuki cabinet, which contributed to its overthrow.

Adachi left the Minseitō in 1931 and organized together with Nakano Seigō the ultra-national "National League" (国民 同盟, Kokumin dōmei), of which he became president. - After he had worked as an advisor in the 2nd Konoe cabinet in 1940 , he withdrew from politics.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Adachi Kenzō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X
• Hunter, Janet: Adachi Kenzō . In: Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Kodansha International, 1984. ISBN 4-7700-1193-8 .

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