Takeru Inukai

Politician. Born in Tokyo as the son of Inukai Tsuyoshi. Graduated from Gakushuin Senior High School and dropped out of the Department of Philosophy at Tokyo Imperial University. During his student days he was influenced by the Shirakaba faction. Published collections of creative writing such as "One Era" and "Nanking June Festival." In 1930 (Showa 5), ​​he ran for office as a member of the Seiyukai Party and was elected, and has been re-elected twice since. In 1931, he became secretary to the prime minister when his father Tsuyoshi became prime minister. During the Sino-Japanese War, he worked hard to establish the Wang Jingwei government. In 1941 he was arrested in the Sorge Incident but was found not guilty. After Japan's defeat, he participated in the formation of the Progressive Party and served as the party's General Affairs Chairman and Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Shidehara Kijuro. He was banned from holding public office in 1947 (Showa 22), but was released the following year in 1948. In December of the same year, following the arrest of Ashida Hitoshi in the Showa Denko Scandal, he became president of the Democratic Party. In 1949, he promoted a conservative alliance, but this led to the Democratic Party splitting apart. In 1951, he joined the Liberal Party, and served as Minister of Justice in the fourth and fifth cabinets of Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru, until he exercised control over the 1954 shipbuilding scandal, for which he resigned in responsibility. His books include "The Yangtze River Still Flows."

[Yuji Odabe]

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政治家。犬養毅(つよし)の実子として東京に生まれる。学習院高等科卒業、東京帝国大学哲学科中退。学生時代に白樺(しらかば)派の影響を受ける。『一つの時代』『南京(ナンキン)六月祭』などの創作集を出す。1930年（昭和5）政友会から立候補し当選、以来2選。1931年父、毅の首相就任に伴い首相秘書官。日中戦争期は汪兆銘(おうちょうめい／ワンチャオミン)政権樹立に尽力。1941年ゾルゲ事件で検挙されたが無罪となる。敗戦後、進歩党結成に参加、同党総務会長、幣原喜重郎(しではらきじゅうろう)内閣の外務政務次官を務める。1947年（昭和22）公職追放、翌1948年解除され、同年12月昭電疑獄事件で芦田均(あしだひとし)逮捕の後を受け民主党総裁となる。1949年保守連携を推進するが民主党分裂をきたした。1951年自由党に入党、第四次、第五次吉田茂内閣の法相を務め、1954年造船疑獄をめぐり指揮権を発動し、その責を負って辞任。著書に『揚子江(ようすこう)は今も流れている』がある。

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