Kono Ichirō

Kōno Ichirō, 1961

Kōno Ichirō ( Japanese 河野 一郎 ; born June 2, 1898 in Odawara ( Kanagawa Prefecture ); died July 8, 1965 ) was a Japanese politician.

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Kōno Ichirō graduated from Waseda University in economics. He worked for the newspaper "Tōkyō Asahi Shimbun" until he was elected to the Reichstag in 1932 as a member of the Rikken Seiyūkai and was re-elected five times.

After the end of the Pacific War in 1945 Kōno Hatoyama Ichirō supported the founding of the "Japan Liberal Party" (日本 自由 党, Nihon jiyū-tō) and became the first general secretary. From 1946 to 1951 he had to give up all offices as part of the “red purge” of the occupying powers. He worked with Miki Bukichi and others to build the Hatoyama government and in 1953 helped found the Liberal Party (自由 党).

After he had worked as general secretary of the Japanese Liberal Party, he joined in 1954 when the "Japanese Democratic Party" (日本 自由 党) was founded in this party. In the same year he became Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of the first Hatoyama cabinet . He joined the Liberal Democratic Party as a Conservative in 1955 and served as Plenipotentiary in 1956 to help restore Japanese-Soviet relations. Since then he has been secretary of the Economic Planning Agency, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Ikeda II cabinet , Minister of Construction and Minister of State for the Olympic Games. He was an influential party representative, aspiring to the position of prime minister, but suddenly died of an aortic aneurysm.

The younger brother Kōno Kenzō (1901-1983) was from 1965 to 1975 President of the Japanese Athletics Association . The second son, Kōno Yōhei (* 1937), headed the House of Representatives.

Remarks

1. ↑ Since 1940 together with "Osaka Asahi Shimbun" simply "Asahi Shimbun".

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kōno Ichirō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 825.

Web links

• Biographies Kōno Ichirō in the Kotobank, Japanese

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