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Mitsujirō Ishii

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Ishii became Deputy Prime Minister when Kishi reshuffled the cabinet in May 1957. Initially he was without portfolio, but in July he was made Director General of the Administrative Management Agency and the Hokkaido Development Agency. He served in these roles until June 1958. In 1959 he again became
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Ishii and his wife had two sons and two daughters. Their eldest son, Kōichirō, was employed at the Bridgestone Corporation founded by his father's friend Shojiro Ishibashi. Kōichirō married Ishibashi's fourth daughter Tamako. After holding several executive positions, he became president of the
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was the favorite, but still had a public image as a haughty bureaucrat. Many felt that Ishii would have a better chance of reconciling the nation following the protests. Most of the faction heads who did not support Ikeda came to rally behind Ishii, including
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Ogata died unexpectedly in January 1956 and Ishii inherited his faction in the LDP. In April of the same year, Ishii led a delegation friendship delegation to Taiwan and met with
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to try to bring down the Kishi cabinet in response to Kishi's mishandling of the protests and especially his unpopular way of ramming the treaty through the Diet in the "
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from 1967 to 1969. A member of the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1947 and 1952 to 1972, he served in several cabinet positions throughout his career, such as
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from its foundation in 1949 until 1971. He was president of the Japan Sport Association from 1962 to 1975. He was also Chairman of the
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Conservative leaders meet to plot the merger of the Liberal and Democratic parties in July 1955. From left to right:
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In December, Ishii became a candidate in the LDP leadership election to succeed Hatoyama. He placed third after
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from 1951 to 1952, but when the purge had been lifted, he returned to political life in the
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in 1955. Ishii became the first Chairman of the General Council for the new party.
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when it was re-founded in 1949. He served briefly as the first president of the
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After the war, Ishii was elected to the House of Representatives for the
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Ishii died of heart failure on September 20, 1981, at the age of 93.
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became prime minister and Taketora Ogata became president of the
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After graduating, Ishii was employed as an inspector in the
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Director General of the Administrative Management Agency
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as Minister of Commerce and Industry, but in May he was
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Ishii returned to the cabinet under Ikeda's successor
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Their daughter Yoshiko was a famous singer in Japan.
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Director General of the Hokkaido Development Agency
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as Minister of Justice from 1965 to 1966. After the
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Speaker of the House of Representatives
Emperor Shōwa
Kentarō Ayabe
Takechiyo Matsuda
Minister of Justice
Eisaku Sato
Hitoshi Takahashi
Isaji Tanaka
Minister of International Trade and Industry
Hayato Ikeda
Hayato Ikeda
Etsusaburo Shiina
Deputy Prime Minister
Nobusuke Kishi
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Shūji Masutani
Member of the House of Representatives
Fukuoka
Kurume
Fukuoka
Japan
Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater
Tokyo Higher Commercial School
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Deputy Prime Minister
Nobusuke Kishi
Kurume
Fukuoka

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