Tatsunosuke Takasaki

Takasaki Tatsunosuke (Japanese高 碕 达 之 助; * February 7, 1885 in the village Hashiramoto (now part of Takatsuki ), Osaka Prefecture, † February 24, 1964 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman who turned to after the Second World War, the policy.

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Journey

Takasaki Tatsunosuke was the third child, the second son, the farmer Takasaki Matsunosuke. His higher education degree, he reached in 1906 at the Tokyo Fishery Institute (now the Institute of Oceanographic Tokyo,东京 海洋 大). In the same year he accepted a position at Toyo Suisan (English: Toyo Marine Products ) in Tsu. 1911-6 he worked for American International Fishery Co.. Addition to their own training, he tried to set up an ultimately not profitable, cannery at Bahía Magdalena. further. After his return and a brief interlude in the trade of salmon for canning before Kamchatka, he led a pineapple plantation on Taiwan. He married Ito 1916. In 1917 he founded in his hometown of Toyo Seikan KK the (东洋 制罐 株式会社, English:. Toyo Can Manufacturing Co. ), for the production of sheets for cans, which he reorganized in 1933 and with headquarters in Shinagawa -ku Tokyo, the largest container company in Japan is today. In order to ensure a steady supply of iron, he first came in contact with manufacturers in Manchukuo.

In 1934 he became director of the Oriental Steel Sheet Co. He traveled to France, Germany and the USSR. In 1940 he was at the head of a trade delegation visiting Italy. It was in 1942 Successor Aikawa Yoshisuke as Director General of Manshu Jukogyo Kaihatsu. He also served on the board of the " Gesamtmandschurischen Association of Japanese " (全 満 日本人 会). First, in the Soviet- liberated area, Takasaki was among the approximately one million Japanese over the Huludao ( Japanese:葫芦岛) were repatriated. From 1947 he worked at Toyo Seikan again and whose board he remained until 1957.

After a cooling-off period until the end of the occupation in Japan, he was on 19 September 1952 Founding President of the semi- state electricity utility Dengen Kaihatsu KK (电源 开 発 株式会社, today's J Power). From 1954 he worked as a consultant for the MITI, on whose behalf he took a journey through 13 Latin American States at the end of the year. In the Cabinets of Hatoyama Ichirō ( 1955-6 ) he was, as Chief of the Bureau of Economic Counsel, which was dissolved on July 20, 1955, Minister of State without portfolio. He stood - as a compromise candidate instead of the politically biased Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru - 1955 Japanese delegation to the Bandung conference. After that Takasaki chief delegate to the signing of the Japan- Philippine Trade Agreement in May 1956 in Manila.

While his second term for the LDP sat for the former constituency of 3 Osaka from May 1958, in the House of Commons, he was pretty much in the third cabinet of Kishi Nobusuke from June 1958 for one year Minister of MITI. At the same time he was head of the " National Authority for Science and Technology" (科学 技术 庁). As a minister, he took part in U.S. in April at various conferences. In the month prior to his appointment, he had led the negotiations on fisheries agreements in the Soviet Union, which ultimately came on 18 April 1960. Likewise, he was conducting the negotiations, in 1962 the conclusion of the Sino- Japanese agreement, known as the Liao - Takasaki memorandum led. After leaving the government office he stood before the Japanese Fisheries Association.

Honors

• Honorary Citizen of Takatsuki in which his place of birth in 1943 was incorporated, on 23 February 1964.
• Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class