Yamamoto Tatsuo

Yamamoto Tatsuo, 1929

Yamamoto Tatsuo Danshaku (Baron) ( Japanese 山 本 達 雄 ; * April 7, 1856 ( traditionally : Ansei 3/3/3) in the Usuki fiefdom , Bungo Province (today: Ōita Prefecture ), Japan ; † November 12, 1947 ) was a Japanese politician .

biography

Yamamoto joined the Bank of Japan as a director in 1889 and was its governor (Sōsai) between 1898 and 1903 . In 1903 he was appointed a member of the manor ( Kizokuin ) by Tennō Meiji .

On August 30, 1911, he was a non-party member of Prime Minister Saionji Kinmochi for Finance (Ōkura-Daijin) appointed and was the second government until December 21, 1912th Between February 1913 and April 1914 he was in the cabinet of Prime Minister Yamamoto Gonnohyōe for the first time Minister of Agriculture and Trade (Nōshōmu-daijin) .

From September 1918 to November he was again appointed Minister of Agriculture and Trade by Prime Minister Hara Takashi in his cabinet .

For his services, he was raised to the nobility as a Danshaku (baron) in 1920 and has since joined the Rikken Seiyūkai as a member . In 1924 he stepped out of the Rikken Seiyūkai and instead founded the Seiyū Hontō, a new party whose chairman was Tokonami Takejirō . Yamamoto himself became an advisor to the party. When Seiyū Hontō and Kenseikei merged to form Rikken Minseitō in 1927 , he was himself next to Tokonami "chief adviser" ( saikō komon ) of this new party.

Most recently he was Interior Minister ( Naimu-daijin ) in the cabinet of Prime Minister Saitō Makoto from May 1932 to July 1934 .

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