Ichimada Hisato

Ichimada Hisato

Ichimada Hisato ( Japanese. 一 万 田 尚 登 ; * August 12, 1893 in Ōita Prefecture ; † January 22, 1984 ) was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (Nihon Minshutō) or Liberal Democratic Party (Jiyūminshutō) .

Life

Ichimada Hisato graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1918 and then began his professional career at the central bank , the Bank of Japan (Nichigin) , where he became director in 1944. On June 1, 1946, he replaced Araki Eikichi as governor of the central bank and held this office until December 10, 1954, whereupon Araki Eikichi was his own successor. In this role, after the end of World War II, he took numerous steps to contain inflation and had a major influence on the economy and, in particular, the financial economy of the post-war years. During this time he was part of the Japanese delegation when the peace treaty of San Francisco was signed on September 8, 1951, through which Japan regained full sovereignty on the main Japanese islands and other islands and which officially ended the occupation . He also became chairman of the Japanese-Indian Society (Nichi In Kyōkai) in 1952 and held this office until he was replaced by Sakurauchi Yoshio in 1955.

He himself was first finance minister of Japan (Ōkura-daijin) on December 10, 1954 in the first cabinet of Hatoyama Ichirō . This ministerial office he held until December 23, 1956 in the second and third Cabinet Hatoyama Ichirō . In the election on February 27, 1955, he was elected for the first time in the 1st constituency of Ōita prefecture as a candidate of the Democratic Party of Japan to the lower house ( Shūgiin ) and was there as an LDP candidate on May 22, 1958, November 20, 1960, Re-elected November 21, 1963 and January 29, 1967. After the dissolution of the House of Representatives on December 2, 1969, he did not apply in the next election and left the House of Commons. After the reshuffle of the first Kishi cabinet on July 10, 1957, he was again Minister of Finance until June 12, 1958.

On July 14, 1962, he applied for the election of the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party and was subject to third place with only six votes clearly Ikeda Hayato , who received 391 votes, and the second placed Satō Eisaku , who also received only 17 votes. In 1965 he was awarded the Order of the Holy Treasure, First Class.

Web links

• Entry in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
• Entry in rulers.org
• The Governments of Japan since 1945

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bank of Japan: List of Governors
2. ↑ Japan: Key Ministries (rulers.org)

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