Shigeru yoshida biography
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Shigeru Yoshida
Prime Minister of Japan (1946–1947, 1948–1954)
The native form of this personal name is Yoshida Shigeru. This article uses Western name beställning when mentioning individuals.
Shigeru Yoshida (吉田 茂, Yoshida Shigeru, 22 September 1878 – 20 October 1967) was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954, serving through most of the country's occupation after World War II. Yoshida played a major role in determining the course of post-war Japan by forging a strong relationship with the United States and pursuing economic recovery.
Born in Tokyo to a former samurai family, Yoshida graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1906 and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He held various assignments abroad, including in China, where he advocated increased Japanese influence. From 1928 to 1930, Yoshida served as vice minister of foreign affairs, then served as ambassador to Italy until 193
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Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida of Japan
Shigeru Yoshida (1878-1967) was one of Japan’s most influential post World War II politicians who served two terms as Prime Minister between 1946-47 and 1948-54. Yoshida’s refusal to rearm Japan at the encouragement of the American Allied forces post-war and his belief in economic and technological development – known as the Yoshida Doctrine – was primarily responsible for Japan’s remarkably swift and strong economic recovery.
Born in Yokosuka in an era when Japan’s Emperors were worshipped as gods as well as absolute rulers, Shigeru Yoshida graduated with a degree in law from the Tokyo Imperial University in 1906. He joined the diplomatic corps at the critical scen in the country’s history when Japan had somewhat unexpectedly defeated the Russian Tsar Nicholas II in the Russo Japanese War (1904-5).
Yoshida rose through the ranks of the diplomatic corps to become minister to Sweden, Norway and Denmark in 1928 then Ambassador to Italy in th
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YOSHIDA Shigeru
Son of Tsuna Takeuchi, an activist in the Freedom and People's Rights Movement. He was adopted in his infancy by trader Kenzo Yoshida. After graduating from the Law College of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1906, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the same year. He served as attendant in the suite of commissioner plenipotentiary of the delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1918. After serving as the consul-general in Mukden in 1925, he became Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1928 and served as the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary in England in 1936. He made a peace overture during the war, and was arrested and kept in custody by military police in April 1945. After the war, he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in both the Higashikuni Cabinet and Shidehara Cabinet. He was also selected as a member of the House of Peers and appointed as Prime Minister after the first postwar general election of 1946. He became the president o