Iwao Yamazaki
Iwao Yamazaki | |
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Tokyo Imperial University | |
| Occupation(s) | Politician, Cabinet Minister |
Iwao Yamazaki (山崎巌, Yamazaki Iwao, 16 September 1894 – 26 June 1968) was a lawyer, politician and cabinet minister in the early
Shōwa period of Japan. His brother, Tatsunosuke Yamazaki was also a politician and cabinet minister, and his nephew Heihachiro Yamazaki was later a prominent member of the post-war Liberal-Democratic Party
.
Biography
Yamazaki was born in
Suzuki Kantarō administration. In mid-1944, he was assigned as civilian administrator of Japanese-occupied Borneo, where he encouraged a policy of Japanization of the local inhabitants through education to bolster support for Imperial Japan’s war efforts.[1]
Following the
occupation authorities, who were attempting to portray Hirohito in more “human” terms.[2]
He also strongly opposed the decision by the occupation authorities to release
Japan Times newspaper on 4 October 1945 that anyone advocating any changes in the present political structure, of the status of the Emperor was a communist who should be arrested.[3]
He resigned together with the rest of the cabinet in protest of the repeal of the Peace Preservation Laws on 9 October 1945 and was immediately placed on the
purged list of those banned from holding government office.[citation needed
]
Following the end of the occupation, Yamazaki was elected to a seat
Diet of Japan in the 1952 General Election under the Liberal Party. During the debate over the adoption of the post-war Constitution of Japan, he publicly speculated that it might be better for Japan to become a protectorate of the United States.[4]
Yamazaki was associated with the politically conservative wing of the party after it became the Liberal Democratic Party and was a leading member of the faction led by
Inejiro Asanuma, president of the Japan Socialist Party
during a televised speech.
Yamazaki retired thereafter from public life, and died in 1968 at the age of 73.
References
- Dore, R.P. Japan, Internationalism and the UN. Routledge. ISBN 0415166470
- Hunter, Janet. A Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History . University of California Press (1994). ISBN 0520045572
- Large, Stephen. Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography. Routledge (1992). ISBN 0415032032
- Nishi, Toshio. Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952. Hoover Press (2004). ISBN 0817974423
- Oi, Keat Gin (2011). The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415456630.
External links
- "Shidehara Reported New Jap Premier". St. Petersburg Times. Oct 6, 1945.
- "Fetters Taken From the Japs by MacArthur". The Milwaukee Journal. Oct 4, 1945.
- "MacArthur Ousts High Jap Official, Fires Police Heads". The Daily Times. Oct 3, 1945.
- "BAN FREEDOM FOR JAP REDS". The Milwaukee Sentinel. Oct 3, 1945.
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