Prime Ministers in Showa/Heisei

PM Tanaka Giichi

• very aggressive policies

PM Wakatsuki Reijiro

• helped enact 1925 laws

• PM during Showa Financial Crisis, forced to resign

PM Hamaguchi Osachi

• AKA Lion Prime Minister

• Led Minseito, almost assassinated bc of London Naval Treaty terms, reversion to gold standard, plans to cut civil service salaries

Inukai Tsuyoshi

• Leader of Rikken Kokuminto & Kakushin Kurabu

• Took JP off gold standard

• Assassinated during May 15 Incident

Fumimaro Konoe

• Advocated for Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

• Tripartite Pact

• Konoe Statements

Yoshida Shigeru

• Yoshida Doctrine

• Treaty of SF

• Nice guy :)

PM Hideki Tojo

• Former general of Imperial JP Army

PM Nobusuke Kishii

• US Japan Security Treaty, led to Anpo Protests

• Nobody likes this guy

PM Eisaku Sato

• longest serving PM

• 1974 Nobel Peace Prize, signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

PM Yasuhiro Nakasone

• worked w/ Ronald Reagan, Japan National Railways

Hayato Ikeda

• Income Doubling Plan

• OECD entry

Tomiichi Murayama

• socialist

• Murayama statement

• Great Hanshin earthquake, Shinrikyo sarin gas

Junichiro Koizumi

• Supported War on Terror

• Deployed the JSDF to Iraq

Shinzo Abe

• JP’s longest serving PM

• Abenomics

• Expands JP Self-Defense Forces, friends w US