“There have been three elections since I became Premier, and my government has won a majority in all of them. Therefore, I believe I have a mandate from the people.”
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Nobusuke Kishi
Nobusuke Kishi was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. As a prominent reform bureaucrat, he directed the exploitative economic management of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in China in the 1930s, and later served in the wartime cabinet. Following World War II, he was imprisoned as a suspected war criminal. After his release, he help…
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politics · Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960 · politician · diplomat · spy · bureaucrat · beamter · jurist · head of government · also Nobusuke Kishi, Apparition of Shōwa, Kisi Nobusuke, Kishi Nobusuke, Nobusuke Kiishi, Monster of the Shōwa era
Born 13 November 1896 · Died 7 August 1987 · Q315572
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2026· 3 entries
“You were being cheeky with that mouth,”
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“respectable member (of) the community of nations it would first have to revise its constitution and rearm: If Japan is alone in renouncing war ... she will not be able to prevent others from invading her land. If, on the other hand, Japan could defend herself, there would be no further need of keeping United States garrison forces in Japan ... Japan should be strong enough to defend herself.”
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2023· 1 entry
Lead Stories rated the claim “Kishi was the leader of Unit 731” Wrong Person.
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1987· 1 entry
Died 1987-08-07.
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1979· 2 entries
Won: United Nations (August 1979).
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Won United Nations Peace Medal (1979).
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1969· 1 entry
Won: Republic of China (November 1969).
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1965· 1 entry
Kishi gave a speech where he called for Japanese rearmament as "a means of eradicating completely the consequences of Japan's defeat and the American occupation
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1960· 6 entries
Kishi officially resigned and Hayato Ikeda became prime minister
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Kishi was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant as he was leaving the prime minister's residence to host a garden party celebrating Hayato Ikeda's impending ascension to the premiership
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In part to celebrate the newly ratified treaty
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Won: West Germany (1960).
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Kishi suddenly called for a snap vote on the Treaty
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Kishi was involved in dedicating, on Mount Sangane in Aichi prefecture, a headstone to General Tojo and six other military leaders executed after the Tokyo war crimes trial, marking their grave as that of "the seven patr
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1959· 4 entries
Won: Mexico (August 1959).
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Won: Brazil (July 1959).
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The nationwide coalition that had successfully defeated Kishi's Police Duties Bill in 1958 had rebranded itself as the "People's Council for Preventing Revision of the Security Treaty" (Anpo Jōyaku Kaitei Soshi Kokumin K
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And in January 1960, Kishi traveled to Washington, D
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1958· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Japan (1958–1960).
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Introduced a bill which would have granted police vastly expanded powers, but withdrew it under heavy opposition
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1957· 3 entries
Career landmark: Director General of the Defence Agency (1957–1957).
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Kishi presented a plan for a Japanese-dominated Asian Development Fund (ADF), which was to operate under the slogan "Economic Development for Asia by Asia", calling for Japan to invest millions of yen in Southeast Asia
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Japan (1957–1958).
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1956· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Foreign Affairs (1956–1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Was instrumental in forming the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
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1953· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the House of Representatives of Japan (1953–1979).
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Kishi's main activities revolved around undermining the leader of the Liberal Party, Shigeru Yoshida, so he could become the Liberal leader in his place
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1952· 2 entries
Kishi was de-purged, enabling his election to the National Diet in 1953
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With the end of the Allied occupation of Japan, Kishi returned to politics and was central in creating the "Japan Reconstruction Federation" (Nippon Saiken Renmei), drawing upon his earlier efforts with the National Defe
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1945· 1 entry
Kishi was imprisoned as a suspected Class A war criminal, but U
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1943· 2 entries
The Ministry of Commerce was abolished and replaced with the newly created Ministry of Munitions
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Career landmark: Minister without portfolio (1943–1944).
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1941· 1 entry
And who had presided over the conscription of thousands of Koreans and Chinese as slave labor during World War II
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1939· 1 entry
Kishi became Vice Minister of Commerce and Industry in the government of Prince Fumimaro Konoe
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1937· 1 entry
Kishi signed a decree calling for the use of slave labor to be conscripted both in Manchukuo and in northern China, stating that in these "times of emergency" (i
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1936· 2 entries
Kishi was one of the drafters of Manchukuo's first Five-Year Plan
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Kishi was appointed Manchukuo's Vice Minister of Industry
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1925· 1 entry
The Ministry was split into the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, with Kishi becoming part of the latter
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1921· 1 entry
And their daughter Yōko was born in 1928
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1919· 1 entry
Kishi married his cousin Yoshiko Kishi, and was adopted by her father, shizoku Nobumasa Kishi
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-11-13.
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