Tanaka Tatsuo

Tanaka Tatsuo ( Japanese 田中 龍 夫 ; born September 20, 1910 in Hagi , Yamaguchi Prefecture ; † March 30, 1998 ) was a Japanese nobleman and politician. In the post-war period he belonged to the Shūgiin for decades for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and was a minister in several cabinets.

Tanaka, the eldest son of Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi , became Danshaku (baron) on his death in 1929 . He studied law at the Imperial University of Tokyo and then became an employee of the South Manchurian Railway . In 1940 he was appointed to the "planning office" ( Kikaku-in ), in 1943 he moved to the "ammunition ministry " ( Gunju-shō ). He was then secretary for two ministers in the cabinet: from 1944 with Agriculture Minister Shimada Toshio , 1945 with Industry and Trade Minister Ogasawara Sankurō . In 1946 he was appointed to the Kizokuin , the mansion of the Reichstag.

Tanaka ran for governorship in his home prefecture in 1947 and became the first popularly elected governor of Yamaguchi. In 1953 he resigned halfway through his second term, succeeded by his brother-in-law Ozawa Taro . Tanaka applied in the Shūgiin election in 1953 in the four-mandate constituency Yamaguchi 1 as an independent for a seat in the national parliament and was elected with the highest percentage of votes. He was then re-elected as a member of parliament twelve times in a row. He later became a member of the Democratic Party of Japan and thus in 1955 a member of the LDP, where he first belonged to the Kishi faction , later to the Fukuda faction . In 1957 he was Deputy Head of the Cabinet Secretariat during the First Kishi Cabinet . For the first time he was minister in 1967 in the second Sato cabinet , in which he was appointed head of the office of the Prime Minister . From 1976 to 1977 he was Minister for International Trade and Industry , from 1980 to 1981 Minister of Education .

In 1981 Tanaka received one of the "three party offices" when he was appointed chairman of the Executive Council by Suzuki Zenko , he held the office until Suzuki's retirement in 1982. For the 1990 Shūgiin election , Tanaka withdrew from politics, and Kawamura Takeo took over his constituency candidacy from Tanaka's hometown Hagi. In the same year he received the Order of the Rising Sun, first class. Tanaka died in 1998 and, like his father, was buried in the Tama Cemetery in Fuchū , Tokyo Prefecture .

Web links

• Tanaka Tatsuo's Tomb (Japanese)

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