Takasaki Tatsunosuke

Takasaki Tatsunosuke ( Japanese 高 碕 達 之 助 ; born February 7, 1885 in the village of Hashiramoto (now part of Takatsuki ), Osaka Prefecture ; † February 24, 1964 in Tokyo ), was a Japanese businessman who turned to politics after World War II .

Life path

Takasaki Tatsunosuke was the third child, the second son, of the farmer Takasaki Matsunosuke. He obtained his higher education degree in 1906 at the Tokyo Fishery Institute (now the Tokyo Oceanographic University , 東京 海洋 大 ). In the same year he took a position at Tōyō Suisan (English: Tōyō Marine Products ) in Tsu . 1911-6 he worked for American International Fishery Co. operates. In addition to his own further training, he tried to set up a canning factory at Bahía Magdalena , which was ultimately not profitable. After his return and a short interlude in the canned salmon trade off Kamchatka, he ran a pineapple plantation in Taiwan. He married Ito in 1916. In 1917 he founded Tōyō Seikan K.K. in his hometown. ( 東洋 製罐 株式会社 , English: Tōyō Can Manufacturing Co. ), for the production of metal sheets for food cans, which he reorganized in 1933 and which is now the largest container company in Japan, based in Shinagawa-ku Tokyo. In order to ensure a steady supply of iron, he first came into contact with manufacturers in Manchukuo .

In 1934 he became director of the Oriental Steel Sheet Co. He toured France, Germany and the USSR. In 1940 he headed a trade delegation that visited Italy. In 1942 he succeeded Aikawa Yoshisuke as general manager of Manshū Jūkōgyō Kaihatsu . He was also a board member of the "All Manchurian Union of Japanese" ( 全 満 日本人 會 ). Initially in the Soviet-liberated area, Takasaki was among the approximately one million Japanese who were repatriated via Huludao (Japanese: 葫蘆島 ). From 1947 he worked again at Tōyō Seikan, whose board he remained until 1957.

After a period of shame until the end of the occupation in Japan , he became the founding president of the semi-state electricity supplier Dengen Kaihatsu KK ( 電源 開 発 株式会社 , today's J Power ) on September 19, 1952 . From 1954 he worked as a consultant for MITI , on whose behalf he set out on a trip to 13 Latin American countries at the end of the year. In the cabinet of Hatoyama Ichirō (1955-6) he was, as head of the Bureau of Economic Counsel, which was dissolved on July 20, 1955, Minister of State without a portfolio. As a compromise candidate in place of the politically charged Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru , he headed the Japanese delegation at the Bandung Conference in 1955 . Then Takasaki was chief delegate for the signing of the Japanese-Philippine trade agreement in May 1956 in Manila.

While he was sitting in his second legislative period for the LDP in the House of Commons for what was then constituency 3 of Osaka from May 1958 , he was "Minister of International Trade and Industry" (MITI) in the third cabinet of Kishi Nobusuke from June 1958 for almost exactly one year. At the same time he was head of the " National Authority for Science and Technology " ( 科学 技術 庁 ). As minister he took part in various conferences in the USA in April. In the month before his appointment, he had negotiated a fisheries agreement in the Soviet Union, which was finally concluded on April 18, 1960. He was also in charge of the negotiations that led to the conclusion of the Sino-Japanese agreement, the so-called Liao-Takasaki Memorandum , in 1962 . After leaving the government office, he headed the Japanese Fisheries Association.

Honors

• Honorary citizen of Takatsuki City , into which his birthplace was incorporated in 1943, on February 23, 1964.
• Order of the Rising Sun , 3rd class

literature

Takasaki published textbooks on pineapple cultivation and metal processing in Japanese.

• Berend Wispelwey (Ed.): Japanese Biographical Archive; Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-34014-1 , Fiche 347
• Itoh Mayumi; Pioneers of Sino-Japanese relations: Liao and Takasaki; Basingstoke 2012; ISBN 9781137027351

Commemorative volume: 高 碕 達 之 助 集 刋 行 委員会 (ed.); 高 碕 達 之 助 集 ["works"]; 1965 (Tōyō Seikan); 2 vol.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ When attempting in Baja California, he is said to have supported the Japanese government's attempt to acquire land there for a naval base. Chamberlin, Eugene Keith; The Japanese Scare at Magdalena Bay; Pacific Historical Review, XXIV (1955), pp. 345-359. (This was a time of political instability )
2. ↑ On the restrictions regarding raw materials on the iron and steel market in the 1930s, cf. Von Staden, Peter; Business - government relations in prewar Japan; 2008; ISBN 9780415399036
3. ↑ Address printed in: Ampiah, Kweku; The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955; Pp. 230–232 ( ISBN 9789004213388 )

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