# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ichiro-kiyose
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:16:33.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ichiro-kiyose"
name: "Ichirō Kiyose"
slug: "ichiro-kiyose"
description: "Ichirō Kiyose  was a Japanese lawyer and politician who rose to serve as Minister of Education and later Speaker of the House of Representatives in the National Diet. As a lawyer, he rose to fame in Japan as one of the defense attorneys for the perpetrators of the May 15 Incident in 1932, and then later became famous internationally when he defended former prime minister Hideki Tōjō during the Tokyo War Crimes Trials after World War II. In 1960, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, he presided over the ramming through the Diet of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty that cemented in place the U.S.-Japan alliance and allows the United States to maintain military bases on Japanese soil."
tagline: "Japanese politician and lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ichiro_Kiyose.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1884-07-05"
deathDate: "1967-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.908138666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A6'%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%94"
    title: "איצ'ירו קיוסה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyose_Ichir%C5%8D"
    title: "Kiyose Ichirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichir%C5%8D_Kiyose"
    title: "Ichirō Kiyose"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E6%BF%91%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E"
    title: "清濑一郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E7%80%AC%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E"
    title: "清瀬一郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%EC%9A%94%EC%84%B8_%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "기요세 이치로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11561329"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump