Itō Masayoshi

Itō Masayoshi

Itō Masayoshi ( Japanese 伊 東 正義 ; * December 15, 1913 in what is now Aizu-Wakamatsu , Fukushima Prefecture ; † May 20, 1994 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (Jiyūminshutō) , who briefly served between June and July 1980 was acting Prime Minister of Japan .

Life

Ministerial official

Itō Masayoshi graduated from Aizu Middle School and Urawa High School to study at the Law Faculty of the Imperial University of Tokyo . After graduation, he began his professional career in 1936 as an employee in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Nōrin-shō) and worked in the meantime in the Authority for the Development of East Asia (Kōain) , which in 1938 by the first Konoe cabinet to coordinate Japanese policy in the Republic of China was created. There the future Prime Minister Ōhira Masayoshi and the future Minister for International Trade and Industry Sasaki Yoshitake were among his colleagues. After the dissolution of the East Asian Development Authority in 1942, he returned to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and was later General Director of the Department for Comprehensive Development of the Economic Planning Office ( Keizai-kikaku-chō ) between 1957 and 1958 , before becoming General Director of the from 1958 to 1961 Agricultural Land Department in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. He then acted between 1962 as general director (chōkan) of the fisheries authority (Suisan-chō) and then from 1962 to 1962 as a permanent state secretary ( jimu-jikan ) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

MP and Minister

After leaving the government, Itō Masayoshi was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the elections on November 21, 1963 in the second constituency of Fukushima Prefecture for the first time as a member of the House of Commons ( Shūgiin ) . He joined the Ikeda faction at that time, one of the major factions of the party since its founding , to which his companion Ōhira belonged (and which was taken over in the 1970s by Ōhira, then by Suzuki Zenko). Itō was vice-chairman of the Political Research Council between 1977 and 1986 and, in 1978, chairman of the LDP's finance committee.

On November 9, 1979 he was appointed by Prime Minister Ōhira Masayoshi to head (chōkan) of the cabinet secretariat in his second cabinet Ōhira and held this office in the rank of minister until July 17, 1980. After Ōhira Masayoshi died on June 12, 1980 in office was, Itō Masayoshi took over the post as acting Prime Minister of Japan , which he held until Suzuki Zenko took office on July 17, 1980. In the Suzuki cabinet he then took over the office of Foreign Minister (Gaimu Daijin) on July 17, 1980 , which he held until his resignation and subsequent replacement by Sonoda Sunao on May 18, 1981. His last position was between July 1986 and November 1987 as chairman of the Political Research Council and then from November 1987 to June 1989 as chairman of the executive council of the LDP party executive committee . Due to his health, he decided not to run again in the Shūgiin election on July 18, 1993 and resigned from the lower house after almost thirty years of membership in parliament.

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org
• Entry in prabook.com
• The Governments of Japan 1945 - today

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japan: Prime Ministers
2. ↑ Japan: Key Ministries

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