Arima Yoriyasu

Politician. Born in Tokyo as the eldest son of the Arima family, lords of the former Kurume domain. After graduating from Gakushuin, he graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at Tokyo Imperial University in 1910 (Meiji 43). He joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and inspected various rural areas. He resigned in 1917 (Taisho 6). He later became a lecturer and assistant professor at the Faculty of Agriculture at Tokyo University. During this time, he was impressed by Kawakami Hajime and Kagawa Toyohiko, and worked hard to establish the Japan Farmers Union and support the Buraku Liberation Movement. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1924 and joined the Seiyukai party, but in 1927 (Showa 2) he was bestowed the title of count, resigned from his position as a member of parliament and became an auditor for the Central Bank of Industrial Cooperatives in order to succeed the family line. He became a member of the House of Peers (affiliated with the Research Society) in 1929, and served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in the Saito Makoto cabinet, Minister of Agriculture in the first Konoe Fumimaro cabinet, and other important posts in industrial associations, promoting the New Order Movement as a close aide to Konoe. In 1940 he became the first Secretary-General of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, but resigned the following year in 1941. He retired from the public eye in politics after becoming president of the Teikoku Fisheries Control Company. After Japan's defeat in the war, he participated in the founding of the National Cooperative Party. He was incarcerated as a Class A war criminal, but was not indicted. In 1955 (Showa 30), he became Chairman of the Japan Racing Association. The writer Arima Yoriyoshi was his son. The Arima Kinen horse race is named after him.

[Yuji Odabe]

"Political Travelogue by Arima Yorinari (1951, Japan Publishing Cooperative Co., Ltd.)" ▽ "Recollections of Seventy Years by Arima Yorinari (1953, Sogensha)" ▽ "The Imperial Rule Assistance Movement in the Early Days - Arima Yorinari" by Yasuda Takeshi (included in "Conversion" edited by the Society for the Study of Science of Thought, 1960, Heibonsha)"

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政治家。旧久留米(くるめ)藩主有馬家の嫡子として東京に生まれる。学習院を経て1910年（明治43）東京帝国大学農科卒業。農商務省に入り農村各地を視察する。1917年（大正6）辞職。のち東大農科講師、助教授となる。この間、河上肇(かわかみはじめ)、賀川豊彦(かがわとよひこ)らに感銘し、日本農民組合創設や部落解放運動の支援などに尽力する。1924年衆議院議員に当選、政友会に入るが、1927年（昭和2）家を継ぐため授爵（伯爵）、議員を辞し産業組合中央金庫監事となる。1929年貴族院議員（研究会所属）となり、斎藤実(さいとうまこと)内閣の農林政務次官、第一次近衛文麿(このえふみまろ)内閣の農相のほか、産業組合の要職を歴任、近衛の側近として新体制運動を推進した。1940年大政翼賛会初代事務局長となったが翌1941年辞任。帝国水産統制株式会社社長となり政界の表面から身を引いた。敗戦後、国民協同党の創立に参加。A級戦犯として収容されたが不起訴。1955年（昭和30）、日本中央競馬会理事長となる。作家有馬頼義(よりちか)はその子。競馬の有馬記念競走は彼にちなむ。

［小田部雄次］

『有馬頼寧著『政界道中記』（1951・日本出版協同株式会社）』▽『有馬頼寧著『七十年の回想』（1953・創元社）』▽『安田武著『創立期の翼賛運動――有馬頼寧』（思想の科学研究会編『転向』所収・1960・平凡社）』

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