Inukai Tsuyoshi

Inukai Tsuyoshi (Japanese犬 养 毅; born April 20, 1855 as the son of a samurai from the Okayama - Klan, † May 15, 1932 ) was a Japanese politician and the 29th Prime Minister of Japan on 13 December 1931 until his death on 15. Mai 1932.

He studied at Keio University before he was with the army for the first time working as a reporter at the front of the Satsuma Rebellion for the political magazine Yubin Hochi Shimbun.

After further activities as a reporter, he joined the newly founded Rikken Kaishinto at ( Constitutional Reform Party ) and was in the coalition movement ( danketsu ) active.

In 1890 he was elected a member of the Japanese House of Representatives and re-elected to the 18th general election. In the cabinet of Okuma Shigenobu he held from 1898 to the post of Minister of Education and the Minister of Communications in the second cabinet of Yamamoto Gonnohyōe held. In 1929 he became president of the Rikken Seiyūkai ( " meeting of the Friends of Constitutional Government") and elected in 1931 to the Prime Minister of Japan.

1932 Inukai was the victim of an assassination in eleven young naval officers as part of a wider, but unsuccessful coup attempt on May 15 The assassins were convicted in the court-martial only to very low penalties were during which hundreds of thousands of signatures collected, the sympathy expressed with them.

Inukais violent death and its assessment by the public opinion of the Japanese people is generally seen by historians as a turning point, after which the Japanese military increasingly taking the upper hand in the Japanese system of government and parliamentary parties were able to make less and less influence.