Nobusuke Kishi
56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan (1896-1987) · Japan · Politicians · Died at 90
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The political fixers Ryōichi Sasakawa (left) and Yoshio Kodama (right), were instrumental in the establishment and operation of Kishi's "National Defense Brotherhood". Pictured while in captivity at Sugamo Prison, March 1946.
Nobusuke Kishi (left) relaxes at the house of his brother, the then Chief Cabinet Secretary Eisaku Satō (1901-75), shortly after he was released from Sugamo Prison on 24 December 1948.
Conservative leaders meet to plot the merger of the Liberal and Democratic parties in July 1955. From left to right: Banboku Ōno, Bukichi Miki, Nobusuke Kishi, Mitsujirō Ishii
Nobusuke Kishi with President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling, in 1957Awards
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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 helped found the Liberal Democratic Party. As Prime Minister, Kishi forcefully revised the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, but was compelled to resign following the massive Anpo protests the unpopular treaty had provoked.
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