Shūji Masutani
Shūji Masutani | |
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益谷 秀次 | |
Masutani in 1963 | |
| Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
| In office July 1960 – July 1961 | |
| President | Hayato Ikeda |
| Preceded by | Kawashima Shojiro |
| Succeeded by | Shigesaburō Maeo |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 18 June 1959 – 19 July 1960 | |
| Prime Minister | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Preceded by | Mitsujirō Ishii (1958) |
| Succeeded by | Ichirō Kōno (1964) |
| Speaker of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 18 March 1955 – 25 April 1958 | |
| Monarch | Hirohito |
| Deputy | Motojirō Sugiyama |
| Preceded by | Tō Matsunaga |
| Succeeded by | Nirō Hoshijima |
| Minister of Construction | |
| In office 19 October 1948 – 6 May 1950 | |
| Prime Minister | Shigeru Yoshida |
| Preceded by | Sasayoshi Hitotsumatsu |
| Succeeded by | Kaneshichi Masuda |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 10 April 1946 – 13 November 1972 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Riki Kawara |
| Constituency | Ishikawa at-large (1946–1947) Ishikawa 2nd (1947–1972) |
| In office 20 February 1932 – 21 March 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Ryōsuke Tobe |
| Succeeded by | Kenzō Aoyama |
| Constituency | Ishikawa 2nd |
| In office 10 May 1920 – 31 January 1924 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Minoru Satō |
| Constituency | Ishikawa 5th |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 January 1888 |
| Died | 18 August 1973 (aged 85) Noto, Ishikawa, Japan |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
| Other political affiliations | Rikken Seiyūkai (1920–1924; 1927–1940) Seiyūhontō (1924–1927) JLP (1945–1948) DLP (1948–1950) LP (1950–1955) |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | Order of the Rising Sun |
Shūji Masutani (益谷秀次; 17 January 1888–18 August 1973) was a Japanese jurist and politician who was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served at the House of Representatives for a long time.
Biography
Masutani was born in Ushitsu Town, Ishikawa Prefecture, on 17 January 1888.[1] He was a graduate of both the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University.[2][3]
Masutani joined the Rikken Seiyūkai in the 1920s.[4] He was part of the factions led by Shigeru Yoshida and then by Hayato Ikeda.[5] Masutani served as the chairman of the executive board of the party between 1950 and 1952.[2] He was elected to the House of Representatives many times.[6]
Masutani held various posts, including secretary to the president of the board of census, parliamentary vice minister of foreign affairs and construction minister under Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida.[3] In 1951 he was appointed state minister to the cabinet led by Shigeru Yoshida, but he was soon dropped from the office.[2] Between 1955 and 1958 he served as speaker of the House of Representatives.[7] In the period between 1959 and 1960 he was the deputy prime minister, minister of state and director of the administrative management agency in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.[3][8][9] In 1961 he was appointed chairman of the investigative commission on security.[8] He was in office until 1967 when Naka Funada became the chairman of the commission.[8]
In October 1972 Masutani retired from politics and died of heart attack in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, on 18 August 1983.[2]
Masutani was the recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, First Class Grand Cordon, which was awarded to him 1961.[1]
References
- ^ a b "益谷 秀次 マスタニ シュウジ". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Shuji Masutani, Ex-Speaker of the House in Japan, Dead". The New York Times. Tokyo. 18 August 1973. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ a b c Japan Report. Vol. 5. Japan Information Center, Consulate General of Japan. 1959. p. 12-PA2.
- ^ Nathaniel B. Thyer (2018). "The Factions". In Robert Pekkanen (ed.). Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan. Vol. 2. Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill. p. 687. ISBN 978-90-04-38053-0.
- ^ Ryuji Hattori; Graham B. Leonard (2020). Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72: Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel Prize. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-000-20343-1.
- ^ Ardath Burks (2010). The Government of Japan. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-136-90017-4.
- ^ Hugh H. Smythe (1955). "Japan and China". Phylon. 16 (4): 463–471. doi:10.2307/272664. JSTOR 272664.
- ^ a b c Michael Green (1992). "Boeizoku: Defense Policy Formation in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party". The MIT Japan Program. p. 16. hdl:1721.1/17099. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ D. Chavez, ed. (1960). Report on United States Military Operations and Mutual Security Programs Overseas. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 18.
External links
- Media related to Shūji Masutani at Wikimedia Commons