Izumiyama Sanroku

Izumiyama Sanroku

Izumiyama Sanroku ( Japanese. 泉山 三 六 ; * May 20, 1896 in the Higashitagawa District , Yamagata Prefecture ; † July 7, 1981 ) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Party (Jiyū-tō) and most recently the Liberal Democratic Party (Jiyūminshutō) , the under among other things, between 1947 and 1948 it was a member of the House of Representatives ( Shūgiin ) and was briefly finance minister of Japan in 1948 . He was also a member of the House of Lords ( Sangiin ) from 1950 to 1962 .

Life

Izumiyama Sanroku came from a farm family and grew in adoptive parents in Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture on. After attending school, he began to study law at the Imperial University of Tokyo , which he graduated in 1921. He then began his professional activity at Mitsui Bank , where he was promoted by its director and later Minister of Finance Ikeda Shigeaki . In addition, at the request of Lieutenant General Ishiwara Kanji , he worked alongside Masayoshi Miyazaki of the South Manchurian Railway Economic Research Society between 1937 and 1940

In the election of April 25, 1947 he was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party (Jiyū-tō) to a member of the House of Representatives ( Shūgiin ) . On October 15, 1948 he was appointed Minister of Finance (ōkura-daijin) by Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru in his second cabinet . After a drunkenness scandal on the night of December 13, 1948, he resigned on December 14, 1948, both his ministerial office and his mandate. Between October 15 and December 14, 1948, he was also a commissioner of the Economic Stabilization Authority.

On June 4, 1950, Izumiyama Sanroku was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Lords ( Sangiin ) for the Liberal Party . In 1955 he became a member of the Liberal Party emerged from the Liberal Democratic Party and for this in the Sangiin-election on July 4, 1956 re-elected to the House of Lords. In the election of July 1, 1962, he suffered a defeat and left the House of Lords.

Web links

• Entry in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japan: Key Ministries
2. ↑ CABINET YOSHIDA 2

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