Mizuno Rentarō

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Mizuno.
Mizuno Rentarō
Born(1868-02-03)February 3, 1868
Edo, Japan
DiedNovember 25, 1949(1949-11-25) (aged 81)
NationalityJapanese
Occupation(s)Cabinet Minister, Legal Scholar

Mizuno Rentarō (水野錬太郎, 3 February 1868 – 25 November 1949) was a statesman, politician and cabinet minister in

Shōwa period Japan
.

Biography

Mizuno was the son of a

Home Ministry
, working initially for the Bureau of Mines, and subsequently serving in numerous other roles.

He was one of the Japanese delegates to the

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in Switzerland, which resulted in the promulgation of the initial version of the Copyright law of Japan
in 1899.

By the invitation of

Diet of Japan. Under the administration of Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake
, he was appointed to the Cabinet as Home Minister for the first time.

From 1919 to 1922, Mizuno served as Parliamentary Commissioner of the

Rice Riots of 1918.[1] During his tenure in Korea, he greatly expanded the telephone infrastructure of the country, which had economic as well as security benefits,[2] On December 25, 1920 Mizuno was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
.

Mizuno returned to the Cabinet as Home Minister again under the Katō administration from 1922 to 1923, turning the post over to Gotō Shinpei the day after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

Mizuno is infamous for his role in the 1923 Kantō Massacre. He stoked rumors that Koreans were committing crimes or taking revenge on the Japanese. An indiscriminate massacre of anyone suspected to be Korean followed. Over 6,000 Koreans were killed by Japanese civil militias.[3]

At the end of 1923, after the

Keigo
administration.

From 1927 to 1928, Mizuno served as

imperial universities and to ban radical leftist student groups.[4]

In 1928, Prime Minister

Rikken Minseitō. Mizuno was forced to resign once again, and Tanaka fell increasingly out of favor with the Emperor; the incident was a major force in driving Tanaka from office in 1929.[5]

In his later years, Mizuno served as chairman of the

war criminal
charges for his position as honorary vice-chairman of the Dai-Nippon Koa Domei (Japan Pan-Asian Alliance), a war-time nationalist society, but was released on 1 September 1947 without coming to trial. He died on 25 November 1949 at the age of 81.

Notes

  1. ^ Weiner. Race and Migration in Japan, page 85
  2. ^ Yang. Technology of Empire. Page 46
  3. ^ 由章, 石黒 (2005). "The Theory of a Government Plot?: The Massacre of Koreans in Japan in September 1923". アジア文化研究 = Asian cultural studies (31): 112–115.
  4. ^ Marshall. Academic Freedom. Page 134
  5. ^ Bix. Hirohito. Page 212

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Education
2 June 1927 – 25 May 1928 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Home Minister

7 January 1924 – 11 June 1924 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Home Minister

12 June 1922 – 2 September 1923 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Home Minister

24 April 1918 – 29 September 1918 		Succeeded by
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