Saitō cabinet

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The Saitō cabinet ( Japanese 齋藤 内閣 , Saitō naikaku ) ruled the Japanese Empire under Prime Minister Admiral Vice-Count Saitō Makoto from May 26, 1932 to July 8, 1934.

Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated during the attempted coup on May 15, 1932 . Two days later, Suzuki Kisaburō was elected to succeed him as chairman of the Rikken Seiyūkai . According to the tradition of " Taishō democracy ", he would have been charged with forming a new government. However, the military prevailed with their rejection of party rule in the environment of the Tennō ; the Genrō Saionji Kimmochi recommended the appointment of Saitō Makoto, a former member of the Privy Council and Governor General of Korea, who did not belong to parliament or any party. The appointment of the Saitō cabinet on May 26th marked the turning away from party rule of the 1920s, the "cabinet of national unity" ( 挙 国 一致 内閣 , kyokoku itchi naikaku ) was mainly recruited from the ministerial bureaucracy with a few ministers from those represented in the lower house political parties.

In Saitō's reign, the nominal independence of the puppet state of Manchukuo fell in Manchuria , which had been occupied since 1931, and the resulting exit of Japan from the League of Nations in March 1933. The expansion on the mainland, which was perceived as a success, favored the military's gain in influence along militaristic and nationalist principles, and export growth of the companies in the course of the yen devaluation after the abandonment of the gold standard in 1932 ushered in the final recovery from the global economic crisis . The bourgeois party politicians submitted to the rise of the military and - apart from an interlude shortly before the start of the war in 1937 - disappeared as influential actors from political life until the end of the Pacific War. The Saitō cabinet resigned in the course of the Teijin incident , an insider trading scandal, in July 1934; but with the appointment of Admiral Okada Keisuke as his successor, another "cabinet of national unity" confirmed the disempowerment of civilian politicians.

Minister of State

Saitō Cabinet - May 26, 1932 to July 8, 1934.
Office Surname Chamber (constituency / method) fraction
prime minister Admiral Vice Count Saitō Makoto - -
Foreign minister Admiral Vice-Count Saitō Makoto until July 6, 1932 - -
Count Uchida Kōsai until September 14, 1933 Kizokuin (appointment)
Hirota Kōki Kizokuin (appointment)
Interior minister Baron Yamamoto Tatsuo
Finance minister Vice Count Takahashi Korekiyo - -
Army Minister Lieutenant General → General Araki Sadao until January 23, 1934 - -
General Hayashi Senjūrō - -
Naval Minister Admiral Okada Keisuke until January 9, 1933 - -
Admiral Baron Ōsumi Mineo - -
Minister of Justice Koyama Matsukichi Kizokuin (appointment)
Minister of Education Hatoyama Ichirō until March 3, 1934 Shūgiin ( Tokyo 2) Seiyūkai
Admiral Vice Count Saitō Makoto - -
Minister for Agriculture and Forests Gotō Fumio Kizokuin (appointment)
Minister for Industry and Trade Baron Nakajima Kumakichi until February 9, 1934
Matsumoto Jōji Kizokuin (appointment)
Communications minister Minami Hiroshi Kizokuin (appointment)
Railway Minister Mitsuchi Chūzō Shūgiin ( Kagawa 2) Seiyūkai
Colonial minister Nagai Ryūtaro Shūgiin ( Ishikawa 1) Minseitō

Other positions

Office Surname Chamber (constituency / method) fraction
Head of the Cabinet Secretariat Shibata Zenzaburō until March 13, 1933 - → Kizokuin (appointment)
Horikiri Zenjirō - → Kizokuin (appointment)
Head of the Legislative Office Horikiri Zenjirō until March 13, 1933 - -
Kurosaki Teizo - -

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