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Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介, Kishi Nobusuke, 13 November 1896 – 7 August 1987) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960.
Aug 8, 1987 · Former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, a member of Premier Hideki Tojo’s cabinet that signed Japan’s declaration of war against the United States, died Friday.
Aug 8, 1987 · Former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, who was once accused by the United States of being a war criminal and later fought for the treaty that governs American-Japanese security relations, died today...
Aug 3, 2024 · Kishi Nobusuke (born Nov. 13, 1896, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan—died Aug. 7, 1987, Tokyo) was a statesman whose term as prime minister of Japan (1957–60) was marked by a turbulent opposition campaign against a new U.S.–Japan security treaty agreed to by his government.
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- A Political Family Background
- Career in The Bureaucracy
- Arrest and Return to Power
- Security Treaty Crisis
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Born Sato Nobusuke, on Nov. 13, 1896, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, southwestern Japan, Kishi was the second son of Hidesuke and Moyo Sato. His father, orginally born into the Kishi family, had been adopted by the Satos to preserve their family line and name. Similarly, Nobusuke was adopted by his father's elder brother and took the family name of Kishi...
After graduating with top honors in 1920, Kishi entered the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce as a clerk, quickly proving himself an able and ambitious worker. In 1936 he was appointed to the second-highest civilian post, responsible for the industrial development of Manchuria,Japan's newly acquired colony. In this post, he worked closely with H...
With the Allied victory in World War II, Allied Occupation forces arrested Kishi and held him for more than three years as a war criminal. During his detention in Sugamo prison until his release without trial in 1948, Kishi spent time reading and reflecting on Western liberalism. Although perhaps more favorably disposed to democratic theory than be...
Japan's relations with the United States overshadowed all other issues in Kishi's three-year term, from 1957 to the summer of 1960. The key was the security treaty, signed by the two countries in September 1951, during the last months of the Allied occupation. The treaty embodied Japan's reliance on American armed forces to preserve its security, p...
The most reliable, scholarly treatment of Kishi's career is in George R. Packard, III, Protest in Tokyo: The Security Treaty Crisis of 1960 (1966). A journalist's rendering of Kishi's life is Dan Kurzman, Kishi and Japan: The Search for the Sun (1960). Recommended for the background of Japanese politics and its relation to foreign policy is Donald ...
Aug 8, 1987 · TOKYO, AUG. 7 -- Former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi, 90, who sought to strengthen ties with the United States through a controversial revision of the 1951 U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty,...
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Nobusuke Kishi died in Tokyo on August 7, 1987. For some years after his resignation, Kishi remained an active member of the Liberal-Democratic party in Japan. He lived in Tokyo with his family, and participated in various cultural events and literary projects.
