Seiicirirō yasui — Wikipedia

Seiichirō yasui ( Seiichiro Yasui , Yasui Seiichirō ^? ) born the 11 mars 1891 in the prefecture of Okayama and died the January 19, 1962 In Tokyo, is a senior Japanese official and politician.

He is the first elected metropolitan governor of Tokyo of April 14, 1947 At April 18, 1958 .
He subsequently won the elected siege of the 1st of the 1st ^is Capital district in the House of Representatives. He is Ken Yasui’s younger brother, former Minister of Local Affairs and President of the Chamber of Councilors.

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Yasui, after a German law course at the Imperial University of Tōkyō, returned to the Ministry of the Interior. He is notably the police superintendent in the prefectures of Ibaraki and Kanagawa. In 1928, he temporarily withdrew to apply for the House of Representatives. He failed to be elected, and returns to his ministry, where he held the post of director of the police division in several prefectures (Toyama, Hyōgo, Fukushima). In 1929, he was named at the head of both the social affairs office and that of public hygiene in the city of Tōkyō ^{[ first ]} .

Two later, in 1931, he became the main secretary of the Governor General of Korea, Kazushige Ugaki. He then performs other functions in the Korean peninsula such as that of head of the office of monopolies (tobacco and alcohol) in the general government of Korea or that of governor of the province of Gyeonggi. He was also head of the office responsible for colonization within the Ministry of Colonial Affairs.

Of April 9, 1940 At January 7, 1941 , Yasui served as a named governor of the Niigata prefecture before finding the municipality of Tōkyō in which he heads the office responsible for electrical work. In 1946, he briefly became Vice-Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Kijūrō Shidehara until May 22, 1946 and the resignation of the cabinet.

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The July 23, 1946 , Yasui is appointed head of the Metropolitan Prefecture of Tokyo known as 東京 都 長官 都 都 都 都 都 都 都 都 都 都 都 都 ( Tokyo-to Chokan ^? ) . He leaves the function 13 mars 1947 , replaced by Kazumi Iinu. He decided to present himself to the first elections by universal suffrage for the post of chief of the Metropolitan Prefecture of Tokyo, set up following a reform of the system organizing the capital. He is elected the April 14, 1947 Thanks to the supports of the conservatives (especially of the Liberal Party). He won this election with 90,000 votes of difference from his opponent of 77 years old , Daikichirō tagawa, fervent Christian and figures of the movement for universal suffrage in the pre-war period, which was supported by the Japanese Socialist Party ^{[ 2 ]} .

The May 3, 1947 , under the application of the law of local autonomy, the function of head of the Metropolitan Prefecture of Tokyo officially takes the name of “Metropolitan Governor of Tokyo” ^{[ 3 ]} .

During his three terms at the head of the prefecture, Yasui energetically managed to cope with the problems of reconstruction and supply which affects a harsh capital struck during the war.

In 1959, he did not represent himself a fourth time and left his duties at the end of his third term. It was, shortly after, made a citizen of honor of the prefecture.

He continued his political career at the national level by being elected, in 1960, in the House of Representatives under the colors of the PLD. However, he died the January 19, 1962 During his first mandate as a representative.

He’s from September 1961 Until his death, President of the Society of Families of Defunities (of the war) of Japan, an association close to the Yasukuni sanctuary of Tōkyō ^{[ 4 ]} .

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