# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kaneshichi-masuda
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:18:56.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kaneshichi-masuda"
name: "Kaneshichi Masuda"
slug: "kaneshichi-masuda"
description: "Kaneshichi Masuda  was a Japanese bureaucrat, cabinet minister, and politician. A career official of the Home Ministry, he served as Governor of Fukushima Prefecture and as Director-General of the Hokkaidō Agency before entering national politics. Under Shigeru Yoshida he held cabinet office as Chief Cabinet Secretary, Minister of Labour, Minister of Transport, Minister of Construction, and the inaugural Director-General of the Hokkaido Development Agency. He later returned to cabinet as Director-General of the Defense Agency under Eisaku Satō."
tagline: "Japanese politician and lawyer (1898-1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kaneshichi_Masuda.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1898-10-04"
deathDate: "1985-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.15
  momentum:             2.781456953642384
  historical:           5.026676
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masuda_Kaneshichi"
    title: "Masuda Kaneshichi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaneshichi_Masuda"
    title: "Kaneshichi Masuda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A2%97%E7%94%B0%E7%94%B2%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%83"
    title: "増田甲子七"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8D%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Масуда, Канэсити"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A2%9E%E7%94%B0%E7%94%B2%E5%AD%90%E4%B8%83"
    title: "增田甲子七"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11429351"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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