Maeda Tamon

Maeda Tamon

Maeda Tamon ( Japanese 前 田 多 門 , born May 11, 1884 in Osaka Prefecture , died July 4, 1962 ) was a Japanese politician, journalist and author during the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

Life

Maeda Tamon was born in Osaka and graduated from Tokyo University in 1909 . From 1909 to 1920 he worked in the Ministry of the Interior, then became Deputy Mayor of Tōkyō under Gotō Shimpei . From 1928 to 1938 he was the leading journalist for the newspaper "Tōkyō Asahi Shimbun". During the Pacific War years , he was governor of Niigata Prefecture .

After the war he became minister of culture in the Higashikuni cabinet from August 18 and then also in the Shidehara cabinet until January 13, 1946. In close collaboration with Prime Minister Shidehara , he worked on the draft of a declaration in which Emperor Hirohito revoked his divine ancestry. Shortly thereafter, Maeda was excluded from government activities by the Allied occupying powers because he had been governor of a prefactory during the war.

Maeda was rehabilitated in 1950 and worked on many national and international projects until his death in 1962. He was particularly active for UNESCO and within the "Movement for Clean Elections".

Publications

• International Labor Movement (国際 労 働, Kokusai Rōdō), Iwanami, 1927　
• Discussions on regional self-government (地方自治 の 話, Chihōjisei no hanashi), Asahi Shimbun, 1930
• Writings on civil society (公民 の 書, Kōmin no Sho), Central Electoral Association, 1936
• Estate of Dr. Nitobe (新 渡 戸 博士 追憶 集, Nitobe Hakase Tsuioku-shū), together with Takagi Yasaka (高木 八尺; 1889–1984), Nitobe Editors' Association, 1936
• The Americans' ideas of Japan (ア メ リ カ 人 の 日本 把握, Amerika no Nihon-haoku), Ikuseisha, 1940
• Contemplation in a Mountain (山 荘 静思, Sansō seishi), Haneda Shoten, 1947

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Maeda Tamon . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 907.

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