Tanzan Ishibashi
Tanzan Ishibashi | |
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石橋 湛山 | |
Official portrait, 1956 | |
| Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 23 December 1956 – 25 February 1957 | |
| Monarch | Hirohito |
| Preceded by | Ichirō Hatoyama |
| Succeeded by | Nobusuke Kishi |
| President of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
| In office 14 December 1956 – 21 March 1957 | |
| Vice President | Banboku Ōno |
| Secretary-General | Takeo Miki |
| Preceded by | Ichirō Hatoyama |
| Succeeded by | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency | |
| In office 23 December 1956 – 31 January 1957 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Funada Naka |
| Succeeded by | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Minister of Posts and Telecommunications | |
| In office 23 December 1956 – 27 December 1956 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Isamu Murakami |
| Succeeded by | Taro Hirai |
| Minister of International Trade and Industry | |
| In office 10 December 1954 – 23 December 1956 | |
| Prime Minister | Ichirō Hatoyama |
| Preceded by | Kiichi Aichi |
| Succeeded by | Mikio Mizuta |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 22 May 1946 – 24 May 1947 | |
| Prime Minister | Shigeru Yoshida |
| Preceded by | Keizo Shibusawa |
| Succeeded by | Tetsu Katayama (acting) |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 1 October 1952 – 29 January 1967 | |
| Constituency | Shizuoka 2nd |
| In office 26 April 1947 – 17 May 1947 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Multi-member district |
| Constituency | Shizuoka 2nd |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Seizō Sugita 25 September 1884 Takanawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | 25 April 1973 (aged 88) Tokyo, Japan |
| Political party | LDP (1955–1973) |
| Other political affiliations | JLP (1945–1948) DLP (1948–1950) LP (1950–1953) LP–H (1953–1954) JDP (1954–1955) |
| Spouse |
Ume Iwai
(m. 1912; died 1971) |
| Alma mater | Waseda University |
| Signature | |
Tanzan Ishibashi (石橋 湛山, Ishibashi Tanzan; 25 September 1884 – 25 April 1973) was a Japanese journalist and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1956 to 1957.
Born in Tokyo, Ishibashi became a journalist after graduating from Waseda University in 1907. In 1911, he joined the Tōyō Keizai Shimpo ("Eastern Economic Journal") and served as its editor-in-chief from 1925 to 1946 and president from 1941. In the 1930s, Ishibashi was one of the few critics of Japanese imperialism, and became well-known as a liberal economist. From 1946 to 1947, Ishibashi served as finance minister under Shigeru Yoshida. He was elected into the National Diet in 1947, but was purged for openly opposing the U.S. occupation policies; he returned to the Diet in 1952, after which he allied with Ichiro Hatoyama and served as his minister of international trade and industry. Ishibashi succeeded Hatoyama as prime minister in 1956, simultaneously serving as director of the Defense Agency, but resigned soon after due to ill health.