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Yoshida Shigeru(born Sept. 22, 1878, Tokyo, Japan—died Oct. 20, 1967, Oiso) Japanese prime minister after World War II. He served as ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Late in the war (June 1945) he was arrested for attempting to force an early Japanese surrender; he was not freed until the start of the Allied occupation (September). He first became prime minister in 1946. Between 1946 and 1954 he formed five separate cabinets, guiding Japan back to economic prosperity and setting a course for postwar cooperation with the U.S. and Europe. In 1951 he negotiated the peace treaty that ended World War II; he also negotiated a security pact between Japan and the U.S. He retired from politics in 1955. See also Showa period. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Particularly notable sections focus on the birth of corporatism in the interwar period (with key roles for Kishi Nobusuke, Ayukawa Gisuke and Giovanni Agnelli), the core choices of the postwar period (with key roles for Yoshida Shigeru and De Gasperi), and the stretching of constraints in the post-Cold War period (Ozawa Ichiro and Ishihara Shintaro vs. Leading Japan out of the ruins of World War II, presiding over a once-shattered political and economic system, Japan's visionary prime minister, Yoshida Shigeru, charted a new course for this country in the postwar era. The Japanese government, under Yoshida Shigeru, however, comes across as far from aggressive in its push for the islands' return. |
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