Hiranuma KiichirÅ
Kiichiro Hiranuma (Japanese平沼 骐 一郎; * September 28, 1867; † August 22, 1952 ) was the 35th Prime Minister of Japan.
Biography
Hiranuma joined in 1888 as a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Tokyo in the Justice Department and worked there as a prosecutor. 1912 Hiranuma was Attorney General. As a result Hiranuma chaired the Supreme Court, held in the second cabinet Yamamoto Gombei the Office of the Minister of Justice and thus entered the political arena. In 1926 he organized the Nationalist Association Kokuhonsha and was its president. At this time he made contact with Mazaki Jinzaburō Sadao Araki and by the army and Katō Hiroharu and Suetsugu of the Navy, who sought a dictatorial and authoritarian military cabinet. In 1936 Hiranuma was on a proposal Hirota, who had just become Prime Minister, Chairman of the Privy. However, Hirota Hiranuma had made the condition that he must distance itself from the right-wing circles. For this reason Hiranuma dissolved the nationalist Kokuhonsha.
In January 1939 Hiranuma took office as prime minister in the wake of Konoe Fumimaro. At this time negotiated Ōshima Hiroshi as Japanese Ambassador to Berlin and Shiratori as ambassador to Rome with the governments of Germany and Italy over a military pact. However, when the German Empire surprisingly finished a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in August 1939, Hiranuma drew the consequences of the failure of coalition politics and resigned. Hiranumas words during withdrawal were: " The European world is yet complex and strange. " Meanwhile Hiranuma remained politically active. He was in the second Konoe Cabinet first minister without portfolio, then Minister of the Interior in 1945 and finally Chairman of the Privy. From the International Military Tribunal Hiranuma was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in 1952.
Family
Hiranumas great-grandnephew and adopted son Takeo is the lower house MP and former transport and economic ministers.
Swell
- Masao Hiratsuka: Tōkyō Saiban. Kawade -Verlag, Tokyo, 2002, p 40
- Akao Fumio Matsuda K., Yoshioka K. (ed.): Nihonshijiten. Ōbunsha, Tokyo 2000/2001, p 509