Suzuki Kisaburō

Suzuki Kisaburō

Suzuki Kisaburo ( Japanese 鈴木喜三郎 ; born 6. November 1867 in the district Tachibana , Musashi Province ; died 24. June 1940 ) was a conservative Japanese politicians during the Taisho and early Showa period .

life and work

Suzuki Kisaburō was adopted by a high priest of a Buddhist temple. In 1891 he graduated from the Tokyo University Faculty of Law and began working in the Ministry of Justice. He became prosecutor in the High Court for Cassation in 1912 and then chief prosecutor in 1921 and finally Minister of Justice in the Kiyoura cabinet in 1924 .

Suzuki tried to suppress unorthodox social movements for him. So in 1925 he campaigned for the promulgation of the law to maintain public security . In 1925 he joined the Rikken Seiyūkai and in 1927 received the Interior Ministry in the Tanaka Giichi cabinet . Under his leadership, there was a mass arrest of members of the Japanese Communist Party in 1928 . March Incident ”went down in history. His intervention in the 1928 election, the first after the passage of the Universal Suffrage Act, then forced him to resign in May. He was then Minister of Justice in the Inukai cabinet from 1931 and then briefly Minister of the Interior in the same cabinet in 1932.

After the assassination of Prime Minister Inukai , Suzuki became President of the Seiyūkai and thus a candidate to succeed the late Inukai as Prime Minister. The influential statesman and Genrō , Saionji Kimmochi , was against a candidacy of the anti-liberal Suzuki, so that this did not come into play. In 1937 Suzuki resigned as president of the Seiyūkai and retired into private life.

Remarks

1. ↑ Today Kawasaki City , Kanagawa Prefecture .
2. ↑ Courts of cassation, which exist in some countries, do not re-examine the facts, but only interpret the relevant law.
3. ↑ On March 15, 1928, 1,600 people were arrested who were assigned to the banned Communist Party. 500 of them were eventually charged.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Suzuki Kisaburō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1488.

Web links

• National Parliamentary Library : Portraits of Modern Japanese, Suzuki Kisaburō (Japanese, English )

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