Koizumi Matajirō

Koizumi Matajirō (1930)

Koizumi Matajirō ( Jap. 小泉又次郎 * 10. June 1865 (traditionally: Keio 01/05/17) in Mutsuurashō , district Kuraki , Musashi Province ; † 24. September 1951 ) was a Japanese politician , Member of Parliament and Minister .

Life

Koizumi was born in 1865 in the village of Mutsuurashō, in what is now Yokohama , Kanagawa, the son of a scaffoldman. He made several failed attempts to evade his father's business and pursue a career in the military. After working as a primary school teacher and journalist, he entered politics in 1907 when he was elected to the Yokosuka City Council. After a short time as a member of the Kanagawa Prefectural Parliament, Koizumi was elected to the Shūgiin , the lower house, for the Yūkōkai ( 猶 興会 ) in the election on May 15, 1908 in the Kanagawa-Land constituency. He was then re-elected twelve times in a row. He later belonged to the Rikken Dōshikai of Katsura Tarō , the Kenseikai of Katō Takaaki and finally the Rikken Minseitō , whose general secretary he was from 1928 to 1929 and from 1937 to 1938.

In the 1920s, Koizumi was the general secretary of the Kenseikai to the spokesmen of the second "movement for the protection of the constitution" ( goken undō ), which advocated party rule and demanded universal suffrage (for men). In 1924, the " tri- coalition for the protection of the constitution" ( goken sampa ) under Prime Minister Katō Takaaki took over the government, Koizumi became vice-president of the Shūgiin. From 1929 to 1931 he was in the Minseitō Cabinets Hamaguchi and Wakatsuki II Minister of Communication ( teishin-daijin ).

During the Pacific War , Koizumi was chairman of the Yokusan Seijikai faction , later advisor to the cabinet of Koiso Kuniaki . In 1945 he was appointed a member of the Kizokuin , the mansion, of which he was a member until the American occupation authorities imposed the ban on wartime politicians .

Koizumi died at the age of 86 as a result of a cerebral haemorrhage.

progeny

Koizumi's son-in-law Jun'ya and his grandson Jun'ichirō represented the (repeatedly changed) constituency in Shūgiin, in which the city of Yokosuka is, and both became ministers of state. His grandson was also Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006 . His great-grandson Shinjirō has continued the family tradition in Parliament since 2009.

Web links

• National Parliamentary Library , portraits of historical figures of Japanese modernism: Koizumi Matajirō (Japanese, English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 【２０ 世紀 の き ょ う】 入 れ 墨 大臣 、 小泉 又 次郎 氏 氏 死去 （１９５１ ・ ９ ・ ２４） . (No longer available online.) In: msn / Sankei News . September 24, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 24, 2009 (Japanese).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

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