Ninagawa Torazō

Ninagawa Torazō

Ninagawa Torazō ( Japanese 蜷 川 虎 三 ; born February 24, 1897 in Tōkyō , Tōkyō ; died February 27, 1981 ) was a Japanese politician, economist, and statistician. He was governor of Kyoto Prefecture from 1950 to 1978 .

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Ninagawa Torazō studied at the University of Kyoto and published his first book on economic statistics (統計学 研究, Tōkeigaku kenkyū), which was published in 1931 by Iwanami Verlag . In 1939 he became a full professor at his university.

After the Pacific War he was appointed in 1948 under the Ashida cabinet to founding director of the "Office for Medium- sized and Small Enterprises " ( 中小企業 庁Chūshō kigyō-chō ) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry ( Shōkō-shō → 1949 Tsūshō-Sangyō-shō ). But he gave up the office again in 1950 because of differences of opinion with the conservative Yoshida cabinet .

Supported by a left coalition, he was elected governor of Kyoto Prefecture in 1950 as an SPJ candidate. In the 1960s, he continually opposed the state government's policy, which promoted large-scale industry centrally in order to achieve rapid economic growth. Ninagawa preferred large-scale lending to boost small and medium-sized industries and rural businesses.

After 1966, Ninagawa approached the Japanese Communist Party , which gradually became the basis for his re-election. In his last election in 1974, parts of the SPJ supported the LDP - DSP - Kōmeitō -based opposing candidate Ōhashi Kazutaka (previously SPJ Senator for Kyoto) and Ninagawa was only re-elected for a seventh term by less than 5,000 votes. In 1978 Ninagawa withdrew from politics.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Ninagawa Torazō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1091.

Web links

• KPJ Prefectural Association of Kyoto to Ninagawa's Tomb (Japanese)

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