Yukio Sakurauchi

Yukio Sakurauchi 櫻内 幸雄
Yukio Sakurauchi
Minister of Finance
In office 16 January 1940 – 22 July 1940
Prime Minister	Mitsumasa Yonai
Preceded by	Kazuo Aoki
Succeeded by	Isao Kawada
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
In office 5 January 1939 – 30 August 1939
Prime Minister	Kiichirō Hiranuma
Preceded by	Yoriyasu Arima
Succeeded by	Takuo Godō
Minister of Commerce and Industry
In office 14 April 1931 – 13 December 1931
Prime Minister	Reijirō Wakatsuki
Preceded by	Magoichi Tawara
Succeeded by	Yonezō Maeda
Personal details
Born	(1888-10-14)October 14, 1888 Hirose, Shimane, Japan
Died	October 9, 1947(1947-10-09) (aged 58)

Yukio Sakurauchi (櫻内 幸雄, Sakurauchi Yukio, 14 October 1888 – 9 October 1947) was an entrepreneur, politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan. He was the father of prominent post-war politician Yoshio Sakurauchi, and grandfather of controversial politician Seiichi Ota.^{[citation needed]}

Life

Sakurauchi was born in former

Sakurauchi left home in 1893 to work in a paper mill in Yokohama in 1893 for minimal wages. In 1895, he was in Tokyo, working as a typesetter and artisan for a newspaper, becoming a reporter for the Nippon Telegraph news agency in 1902, and executive director of the Ogura Racing Association by 1907. Making a fortune in speculating in horses by 1908, he was appointed president of Saitama Electric Light Company in 1909 and president of Okayama Hydroelectric Company in 1917.

Sakurauchi was elected to the

In 1931, Prime Minister

After the surrender of Japan, Sakurauchi was purged from public office in 1946 along with all other members of the wartime administration. He died the following year.