Nobusuke kishi biography

Succeeded his father and after graduating from the Law Department of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1920, he joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. He served as the vice director of Industry Department of Manchukuo and the Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Tojo Cabinet to promote the economy system during the war. He was elected for the first time a member of the House of Representatives by recommendation of Yokusan Seiji Taisei Kyogikai(the Imperial Rule Assistance Political Association) in 1942. He was detained on suspicion of being a class-A war criminal in 1945. He was acquitted and released, however, in 1948. After the termination of the purge of undesirables from public office in 1952, he formed the Nihon Saiken Renmei (Japan Reconstruction League). After joining the Liberal party in 1953, he served the respective post of secretary-general of Nihon Minshu-to (Japan Democratic Party) and the Liberal Democratic Party. He became Prime

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Nobusuke Kishi

"Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介, Kishi Nobusuke, 13 November 1896 – 7 August 1987) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960.

Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the "Monster of the Shōwa era" (昭和の妖怪; Shōwa no yōkai).[1] Kishi later served in the wartime cabinet of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō as Minister of Commerce and Vice Minister of Munitions,[2] and co-signed the declaration of war against the United States on December 7, 1941.

After World War II, Kishi was imprisoned for three years as a suspected Class A war criminal. However, the U.S. government did not charge, try, or convict him, and eventually released him as they considered Kishi to be the best man to lead a post-war Japan in a pro-American direction. With U.S. support, he went on to consolidate the Japanese conservative camp against perceived threats from the Japan Socia

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Nobusuke Kishi

Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960

Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介, Kishi Nobusuke, 13 November 1896 – 7 August 1987) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. He is remembered for his exploitative economic management of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in China in the 1930s, imprisonment as a suspected war criminal following World War II, and provocation of the massive Anpo protests as prime minister, retrospectively receiving the nickname "Monster of the Shōwa era" (昭和の妖怪; Shōwa no yōkai).^[1] Kishi was the founder of the Satō–Kishi–Abe dynasty in Japanese politics, with his younger brother Eisaku Satō and his grandson Shinzo Abe both later serving as prime ministers of Japan.

Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kishi graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1920. He rose through the ranks at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and during the 1930s led the industrial development of Manchu