Hamaguchi Osachi was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister and Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931. Nicknamed the "Lion Prime Minister" due to his dignified demeanor and mane-like hair, Hamaguchi served as leading member of the liberal Rikken Minseitō during the "Taishō democracy" of interwar Japan. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1915 until his death. He initially survived an assassination attempt by a right-wing extremist in 1930, but died about nine months later from a bacterial infection in his unhealed wounds.
Hamaguchi Osachi
Adachi Kenzō, Osachi Hamaguchi, Toshio Shimada, Baron Kato, Kataoka Naoharu, and Ema Koigumi in 1916
Osachi Hamaguchi, before 1931
The spot at Tokyo Station where Osachi Hamaguchi was shot
Constitutional Democratic Party (Japan)
Rikken Minseitō was one of the main political parties in pre-war Empire of Japan. It was commonly known as the Minseitō.
Headquarters of the Rikken Minseitō in Tokyo
Headquarters of its main rival, the Rikken Seiyūkai