Shigeru Yoshida (bureaucrat)
Shigeru Yoshida 吉田 茂 | |
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.jpg) Shigeru Yoshida | |
| Born | September 2, 1885 |
| Died | December 9, 1954 (aged 69) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation(s) | Bureaucrat, Politician, Cabinet Minister |
Shigeru Yoshida (吉田 茂, Yoshida Shigeru, September 2, 1885 – December 9, 1954), was bureaucrat and politician in the
Diet of Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary, governor of Fukuoka Prefecture
and twice as a cabinet minister.
Biography
Yoshida was born in what is now part of the city of
Shinto shrines under State Shintoism
.
From October 1934 to May 1935, Yoshida served as Hideki Tōjō. Under Tōjō’s successor, Kuniaki Koiso, Yoshida was recalled to Tokyo to serve as Minister of Munitions from December 1944 to April 1945. As Munitions Minister, he attempted to construct underground armament-manufacturing facilities to protect them from aerial bombing.[1]
Following the end of
Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, but was not arrested. In 1953, a year after the end of the Occupation of Japan, he became head of the Association of Shinto Shrines
.
Another Yoshida
The bureaucrat Shigeru Yoshida was often confused with another politician of similar age with exactly the same name.
Ōiso, Kanagawa
.
References
- ^ "Industry Hide-Out Sped," New York Times, January 28, 1945
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