Masaharu Gotōda
Masaharu Gotōda (後藤田 正晴, ''Gotoda Masaharu'', 9 August 1914 – 19 September 2005) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Japan in 1993. He also several in several other cabinet positions such as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1982 to 1983 and 1985 to 1987 under Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Minister of Justice from 1992 to 1993 under Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. Before becoming a politician Gotōda served as Commissioner General of the National Police Agency from 1969 to 1972 and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1972 to 1973. Early life Masaharu Gotōda was born on 9 August 1914 in Higashiyama Village in the Oe District of Tokushima Prefecture. Gotōda studied law and politics at Tokyo Imperial University. After graduating in 1938 he joined the prestigious Home Ministry. The following year Gotōda was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. He served as a liaison officer in Taiwan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Deputy Prime Minister Of Japan
The is the second highest-ranking officer of the executive branch of the government of Japan after the prime minister of Japan, and ranks first in the line of succession to the prime minister. The office of the deputy prime minister is not a permanent position, and exists only at the discretion of the prime minister. The deputy prime minister is appointed by the prime minister and must be a member of the cabinet, for instance Taro Aso served as Minister of Finance concurrently. Should the prime minister be incapacitated or resign, the deputy prime minister does not automatically succeed to the position, but instead exercises the duties of the prime minister until the National Diet , transcription_name = ''Kokkai'' , legislature = 215th Session of the National Diet , coa_pic = Flag of Japan.svg , house_type = Bicameral , houses = , foundation=29 November 1890(), leader1_type ... elects a successor. Tarō Asō was the longest-s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chair Of The National Public Safety Commission
The is a member of the Cabinet of Japan and is the presiding officer of the National Public Safety Commission (Japan), National Public Safety Commission, which is the parent agency of the National Police Agency (Japan), National Police Agency. The chairperson holds the rank of minister of state, and is a statutory member of the National Security Council (Japan), National Security Council. The chair is nominated by the Prime Minister of Japan and is appointed by the Emperor of Japan. The other five members of the commission must require the consent of both houses in the National Diet in order to serve. The current Chairman is Manabu Sakai, who took office on 1 October 2024. List of chair of the National Public Safety Commission References {{Ministries_of_Japan Government ministers of Japan, * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bunkyō
is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area, Bunkyō is a residential and educational center. Beginning in the Meiji period, literati like Natsume Sōseki, as well as scholars and politicians have lived there. Bunkyō is home to the Tokyo Dome, Judo's Kodokan Judo Institute, Kōdōkan, and the University of Tokyo's Hongō campus, Hongo Campus. It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Hongo and Koishikawa wards following Tokyo City's Local Autonomy Act, transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Bunkyo ward exhibits contrasting Shitamachi and Yamanote geographical and cultural division. The Nezu and Sendagi neighborhoods in the ward's eastern corner is attached to the Shitamachi area in Ueno. On the other hand, the remaining areas of the ward typically represent Yamanote districts. As of 2022, the ward has a population of 240,069 (including about 8,500 foreign residents), and a population density of . ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Empire Of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on January 3, 1868, until the Constitution of Japan took effect on May 3, 1947. From Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, 1910 to Japanese Instrument of Surrender, 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kuril Islands, Kurils, Karafuto Prefecture, Karafuto, Korea under Japanese rule, Korea, and Taiwan under Japanese rule, Taiwan. The South Seas Mandate and Foreign concessions in China#List of concessions, concessions such as the Kwantung Leased Territory were ''de jure'' not internal parts of the empire but dependent territories. In the closing stages of World War II, with Japan defeated alongside the rest of the Axis powers, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formalized surrender was issued on September 2, 1945, in compliance with the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies of World War II, Allies, and the empire's territory subsequent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yoshinogawa, Tokushima
file:Tokushima Prefectural Road Route 244 in Yoshinogawa city.JPG, 290px, Tokushima Prefectural Road Route 244 in Yoshinogawa file:Huziidera12.jpg, 290px, Fujii-dera wisteria is a Cities of Japan, city located in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 39,150 in 17958 households and a population density of 270 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Yoshinogawa is located in the northern part of Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It is located on the south bank of the Yoshino River, which runs east to west and most of the population is concentrated in the Tokushima Plain along this river. Neighbouring municipalities Tokushima Prefecture * Awa, Tokushima, Awa * Ishii, Tokushima, Ishii * Kamiita, Tokushima, Kamiita * Kamiyama, Tokushima, Kamiyama * Mima, Tokushima, Mima Climate Yoshinogawa has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mikio Takahashi
Mikio (written: , , , , , , , , , in hiragana or in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese politician *, Japanese comedian *, Japanese composer, music arranger and producer *, Japanese politician * Mikio Hasemoto (1916–1943), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese sport shooter *, Japanese alpine skier *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese ice hockey player * Japanese jurist, educator and politician *, Japanese actor *, Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer *, Japanese athlete *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese singer-songwriter *, Japanese chief executive *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese politician *, Japanese keyboardist *, Japanese karate master *, Japanese scientist {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hiroshi Arai
is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi. Written forms Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters. Here are some examples: *浩, "wide expanse, abundance, vigorous" *弘, "vast, broad, wide" *宏, "wide, large" *寛, "tolerant, leniency, generosity, relax" *洋, "ocean, sea, foreign, Western style" *博, "large, wide, wise" *大, "large, big" *広志, "wide, broad, spacious" and "intention, plan, resolve, aspire, hopes" *博司, "large, wide, wise" and "director, official, govt office, rule, administer" *博史, "large, wide, wise" and "history, chronicle" People with the name *, Japanese comedian *Hiroshi Abe (other), multiple people *, Japanese actor *, Japanese astronomer * Hiroshi Abe (born 1922), Japanese war criminal *, Japanese Japanese physicist, engineer, Nobel Prize winner *, Japanese screenwriter and film director *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator *, Japanese ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Police Agency (Japan)
The is the central coordinating law enforcement agency of the Law enforcement in Japan, Japanese police system. Unlike National Police (other), national police in other countries, the NPA does not have any operational units of its own aside from the Imperial Guard (Japan)#Imperial Guard of the National Police Agency, Imperial Guard; rather, it is responsible for supervising Japan's 47 prefectural police departments and determining their general standards and policies, though it can command police agencies under it in national emergencies or large-scale disasters. It is under the National Public Safety Commission (Japan), National Public Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office (Japan), Cabinet Office. As of 2017, the NPA has a strength of approximately 7,800 personnel: 2,100 police officer, sworn officers, 900 guards, and 4,800 civilian staff. History Police services of the Empire of Japan were placed under complete centralized control with the of the Home Ministry (Ja ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tokushima At-large District (House Of Representatives)
was a constituency of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national legislature). It consists of Tokushima Prefecture and elects two Councillors, one every three years by a first-past-the-post system for a six-year term. In the first election in 1947, Tokushima like all districts used single non-transferable vote to elect both its Councillors in one election. Single-member districts (''ichinin-ku'') for the House of Councillors often play a decisive role for the outcome of elections as little swing in votes is required to achieve a change of the Councillors elected there. Tokushima in predominantly rural Shikoku has for decades voted for candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) or ex-LDP conservative independents by large margins. In the landslide election of 1989 that left the LDP-led government without a majority in the House of Councillors for the first time, a so-called "twisted parliament" (''nejire kokkai''), Harumi Inui from RENGO Rengo is a city and c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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House Of Representatives (Japan)
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house. The composition of the House is established by and of the Constitution of Japan. The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 176 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a Party-list proportional representation, party-list system of proportional representation, and 289 are elected from single-member constituencies. The overall voting system used to elect the House of Representatives is a Parallel voting, parallel system, a form of semi-proportional representation. Under a parallel system, the allocation of list seats does not take into account the outcome in the single seat constituencies. Therefore, the overall allocation of seats in the House of Representatives is not proportional, to the advantage of larger parties. In contrast, in bodies such as the German ''Bundestag'' or the New Zealand Parliament the election of s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hiromori Kawashima
Hiromori Kawashima (February 2, 1922 – December 9, 2012) was a Japanese police officer and executive who served as the Commissioner of Baseball in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1998 to 2004. He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. Kawashima was an alumnus of Chuo University. He was a senior police officer after the war and served as chief of the Security Bureau of the National Police Agency from 1968 to 1970, director of the Cabinet Research Office in 1971 and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1973 to 1976. In 1979 Kawashima was president of the Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation (JRCC). He was one of six JRCC executives forced to step down in September 1979 when it was revealed that the corporation had used money intended for overtime and other expenses for personal vacations. In December 1998 Kawashima and Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig Allan Huber "Bud" Selig (; born July 30, 1934) is an American baseball executive who c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kin'ichi Koike
Kin'ichi or Kinichi (written: 欽壹 or 欽一) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese comedian *, Japanese actor Fictional characters: * Kinichi Tohyama, a character from anime series ''Aria the Scarlet Ammo is a Japanese light novel series written by Chūgaku Akamatsu and illustrated by Kobuichi. As of December 2024, 42 main volumes have been published by Media Factory under their MF Bunko J label. A manga adaptation by Yoshino Koyoka started ...'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Kinichi Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |