Nobusuke Kishi
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Nobusuke Kishi was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. As a prominent reform bureaucrat, he directed the exploitative economic management of t
Official portrait, 1957
Cropped photo of the wartime Hideki Tōjō cabinet. Kishi is second from the left in the second row, just behind Tōjō's right shoulder.
Hideki Tōjō (right) and Nobusuke Kishi, October 1943.
Nobusuke Kishi (left) relaxes at the house of his brother, the then Chief Cabinet Secretary Eisaku Satō (1901–75), shortly after he was released from Sugamo Prison on 24 December 1948.
Hayato Ikeda
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Hayato Ikeda was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964. He is best known for his Income Doubling Plan, which promised to double the size of Japan's economy in 1
Nobusuke Kishi
…took effect in accordance with Japanese law, 30 days after having passed the lower house of the Diet. On July 15, 1960, Kishi officially resigned and Hayato Ikeda became prime minister. Ikeda soon made clear that there would be no further attempts by the LDP to revise Article 9 of the Constitution for the foreseeable…
Ikeda in 1962
Ikeda in 1960
June 1961 summit meeting in Washington D.C. between Hayato Ikeda (second from left) and John F. Kennedy (fourth from left)
Statue of Ikeda in Hiroshima, Japan