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Hamaguchi, Osachi

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Hamaguchi, Osachi or Yuko (ō`sächē hämäg`chē, y`kō), 1870–1931, Japanese statesman. He was finance minister (1924–26) and home minister (1926–27) before becoming (1927) president of the Minseito party. As prime minister (1929–30, 1931), he failed in combating economic depression. He pursued a conciliatory policy toward China and compromised with the United States in the London Naval Treaty of 1930 (see naval conferences London Naval Conference (1908–9), composed of delegates of 10 powers, resulted in the influential Declaration of London (see London, Declaration of ). After World War I, U.S. President Harding called the

Washington Conference (1921–22).
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). These measures were unpopular with the militarists. He was shot by an ultranationalist in 1930 and died in 1931.


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