Toshiki Kaifu

In this Japanese name, the family name is Kaifu.

Toshiki Kaifu
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48th Prime Minister of Japan
In office 10 August 1989 – 5 November 1991
Monarch	Akihito
Preceded by	Sōsuke Uno
Succeeded by	Kiichi Miyazawa
Minister of Finance
In office 14 October 1991 – 5 November 1991
Preceded by	Ryutaro Hashimoto
Succeeded by	Tsutomu Hata
Minister of Education
In office 28 December 1985 – 22 July 1986
Prime Minister	Yasuhiro Nakasone
Preceded by	Hikaru Matsunaga
Succeeded by	Masayuki Fujio
In office 24 December 1976 – 28 November 1977
Prime Minister	Takeo Fukuda
Preceded by	Michio Nagai
Succeeded by	Shigetami Sunada
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
In office 9 December 1974 – 15 September 1976
Prime Minister	Takeo Miki
Preceded by	Seiroku Kajiyama
Succeeded by	Hyosuke Kujiraoka
Personal details
Born	(1931-01-02) 2 January 1931 (age 88) Nagoya, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party (2003–present)
Other political affiliations	Liberal Democratic Party (1960–1994) New Frontier Party (1994–1998) "Assembly of Independents" (1998) Liberal Party (1998–2000) Conservative Party (2000–2002) New Conservative Party (2002–2003)
Alma mater	Chuo University Waseda University
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Toshiki Kaifu (海部 俊樹, Kaifu Toshiki, born 2 January 1931) is a Japanese politician who was the 76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.^[1]

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  1 Early life and education
  


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  2 Career
  


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  3 Honours
  


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  4 In popular culture
  


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  5 References
  

Early life and education

Kaifu was born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, on 2 January 1931. He was educated at Chuo University and Waseda University.

Career

with the G7 leaders

A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Kaifu ran successfully for the Diet in 1960 and served for sixteen terms totaling 49 years. He was education minister before rising to lead the party after the resignations of Takeshita Noboru and Sōsuke Uno, elected on the platform of "clean leadership." Kaifu became the 76th Prime Minister of Japan in August 1989.

On August 10, 1991, Kaifu became the first leader of a major country to make an official visit to China and break China's diplomatic isolation after the Tiananmen Square Incident of June 4, 1989. Kaifu ended Japan's participation in economic sanctions against China and offered $949.9 million in loans and an additional $1.5 million in emergency aid following flood damage in southern China in June and July.^[2]

Throughout his two Cabinets, Kaifu's faction was too small to push through the reforms he sought, and the continuing repercussions of the Sagawa Express scandal caused problems. He resigned in November 1991 and was replaced by Kiichi Miyazawa.

In 1994, he left the LDP to become head of the newly founded Shinshinto (New Frontier Party). He supported Ichirō Ozawa's party until he returned to LDP in 2003. He was defeated in the election of 2009 by DPJ candidate Mitsunori Okamoto, which witnessed the end of almost uninterrupted LDP dominance since 1955. At the time of his defeat, he was the longest-serving member of the lower house of the Diet, and he was also the first former prime minister to be defeated at a re-election since 1963.

Honours

From the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (July 2011)

In popular culture

Kaifu is one of several world leaders depicted on the cover of Megadeth's 1990 album Rust in Peace.

References

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  KAIFU, Toshiki International Who's Who. Retrieved 3 September 2006.

Party political offices
Preceded by Sosuke Uno	Director of Youth Division, Liberal Democratic Party 1966	Succeeded by Takasaburo Naito
Preceded by Takasaburo Naito	Director of Youth Division, Liberal Democratic Party 1968-1972	Succeeded by Takeo Nishioka
Preceded by Sosuke Uno	Chair of Diet Affairs Committee, Liberal Democratic Party 1976	Succeeded by Shintaro Abe
Preceded by Sosuke Uno	President of the Liberal Democratic Party 1989-1991	Succeeded by Kiichi Miyazawa
New title	Leader of the New Frontier Party 1994-1995	Succeeded by Ichiro Ozawa
Political offices
Preceded by Seiroku Kajiyama	Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary 1974–1976	Succeeded by Hyosuke Kujiraoka
Preceded by Michio Nagai	Minister of Education 1976–1977	Succeeded by Shigetami Sunada
Preceded by Hikaru Matsunaga	Minister of Education 1985–1986	Succeeded by Masayuki Fujio
Preceded by Sōsuke Uno	Prime Minister of Japan 1989–1991	Succeeded by Kiichi Miyazawa
Preceded by Ryutaro Hashimoto	Minister of Finance 1991	Succeeded by Tsutomu Hata
Honorary titles
Preceded by Kazuo Tanikawa	Youngest member of the House of Representatives 1960-1963	Succeeded by Ryutaro Hashimoto

v t e Prime Ministers of Japan (List)
Empire of Japan, 1868–1947	Meiji Period, 1868–1912 H. Itō Kuroda Sanjō Yamagata Matsukata H. Itō Kuroda Matsukata H. Itō Ōkuma Yamagata H. Itō Saionji Katsura Saionji Taishō Period, 1912–26 Katsura Saionji Katsura Yamamoto Ōkuma Terauchi Hara Uchida Takahashi To. Katō Uchida Yamamoto Kiyoura Ta. Katō Wakatsuki Shōwa Period, 1926–47 G. Tanaka Hamaguchi Shidehara Hamaguchi Wakatsuki Inukai Takahashi Saitō Okada Gotō Okada Hirota Hayashi Konoe Hiranuma N. Abe Yonai Konoe Tōjō Koiso K. Suzuki Higashikuni Shidehara Yoshida
State of Japan, 1947–present	Shōwa Period, 1947–89 Katayama Ashida Yoshida I. Hatoyama Ishibashi Kishi Ikeda Satō K. Tanaka Miki T. Fukuda Ōhira M. Itō Z. Suzuki Nakasone Takeshita Heisei Period, 1989– Uno Kaifu Miyazawa Hosokawa Hata Murayama Hashimoto Obuchi Aoki Mori Koizumi S. Abe Y. Fukuda Asō Y. Hatoyama Kan Noda S. Abe
Italics denote acting Prime Ministers

v t e Finance Ministers of Japan
Minister of Finance (大蔵卿, Ōkura-kyō) under the Daijōkan system of the Meiji Government	Matsudaira Date Ōkubo Ōkuma Sano Matsukata
Minister of Finance (大蔵大臣, Ōkura Daijin) under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan	Matsukata Watanabe Matsukata Watanabe Matsukata Inoue Matsuda Matsukata Watanabe Saionji Sone Sakatani Matsuda Katsura Yamamoto Wakatsuki Takahashi Wakatsuki Taketomi Terauchi Shōda Takahashi Ichiki Inoue Shōda Hamaguchi Hayami Naoharu Takahashi Mitsuchi Inoue Takahashi Fujii Takahashi Machida Baba Yūki Kaya Ikeda Ishiwata Aoki Sakurauchi Kawada Ogura Kaya Ishiwata Tsushima Hirose Tsushima Shibusawa Ishibashi
Minister of Finance (大蔵大臣, Ōkura Daijin) under the Constitution of Japan	Katayama Yano Kurisu Kitamura Yoshida Izumiyama Ōya Ikeda Mukai Ogasawara Ichimanda Ikeda Ichimanda Satō Mizuta Tanaka Fukuda Mizuta Fukuda Mizuta Ueki Aichi Tanaka Fukuda Ōhira Bō Murayama Kaneko Takeshita Watanabe Takeshita Miyazawa Takeshita Murayama Hashimoto Kaifu Hata Hayashi Fujii Takemura Kubo Mitsuzuka Matsunaga Miyazawa
Minister of Finance (財務大臣, Zaimu Daijin)	Miyazawa Shiokawa Tanigaki Omi Nukaga Ibuki Nakagawa Yosano Fujii Kan Noda Azumi Jojima Asō
Italics denote acting Ministers of Finance

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