Aiichirō Fujiyama

Director of the Economic Planning AgencyIn office
3 June 1965 – 4 November 1966Prime MinisterEisaku SatōPreceded byMamoru TakahashiSucceeded byEisaku Satō (acting)In office
18 July 1961 – 6 July 1962Prime MinisterHayato IkedaPreceded byHisatsune SakomizuSucceeded byHayato Ikeda (acting)Minister of Foreign AffairsIn office
July 10, 1957 – July 19, 1960Prime MinisterNobusuke KishiPreceded byNobusuke KishiSucceeded byZentaro KosakaChairman of Japan AirlinesIn office
August 1951 – September 1953Preceded byPosition establishedSucceeded byKunizō Hara Personal detailsBorn(1897-05-22)May 22, 1897
Tokyo, JapanDiedFebruary 22, 1985(1985-02-22) (aged 87)
Tokyo, JapanPolitical partyLiberal Democratic PartyAlma materKeio University (Incomplete)

Aiichirō Fujiyama (藤山 愛一郎, Fujiyama Aiichirō, May 22, 1897 – February 22, 1985) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and business executive.^[1]

A business executive who symbolized "big business" in Japan as president of Dai Nippon Sugar Manufacturing Co. and executive officer of Nitto Chemical Industry Co., he used his influence to bring about the fall of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō in 1944.

After Japan's World War II surrender, Fujiyama was imprisoned without a trial for three years, having been accused of "war crimes". After his release he represented Japan at the 1951 UNESCO meeting in Paris and later served as Chairman of Japan Airlines (1951-1953).

Fujiyama was elected to Parliament in 1957 and was reelected five times. As Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi (1957–60), he headed Japan's first delegation to the United Nations (1957), helped revise the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty (1960), and promoted the restoration of diplomatic relations between Japan and China. He also served in the cabinet of Kishi's successor Hayato Ikeda as Director of Japan's Economic Planning Agency.^[2]

During the 1960s, he controlled a personal faction within the LDP, closely aligned with the Kishi faction, and ran unsuccessfully several times for presidency of the LDP.

In 1970, Fujiyama made an unsanctioned trip to the People's Republic of China in an effort to expand Japanese trade relations with China.

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Aiichirō Fujiyama in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

References

Political offices
Preceded by Nobusuke Kishi	Minister for Foreign Affairs 1957–1960	Succeeded by Zentaro Kosaka
Preceded by Hisatsune Sakomizu	Director of the Economic Planning Agency 1961–1962	Succeeded by Hayato Ikeda Acting
Preceded by Mamoru Takahashi	Director of the Economic Planning Agency 1965–1966	Succeeded by Eisaku Satō Acting
Party political offices
Preceded by Munenori Akagi	Chairman of the General Council of the Liberal Democratic Party 1963–1964	Succeeded by Umekichi Nakamura
Business positions
Preceded by Yoshiaki Hatta	Chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1941–1946	Succeeded by Ryutaro Takahashi
Preceded by Shinsuke Asao	Chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives 1951–1952	Succeeded by Masamichi Yamagiwa
New title	Chairman of Japan Airlines 1951–1953	Succeeded by Kunizō Hara
Preceded by Ryutaro Takahashi	Chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1951–1957	Succeeded by Tadashi Adachi
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by Ryutaro Takahashi	President of the Community Chest of Tokyo 1952–1957	Succeeded by Tadashi Adachi