Inukai Tsuyoshi
| Inukai Tsuyoshi | |
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| 犬養 毅 | |
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| 18th Prime Minister of Japan | |
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In office 13 December 1931 – 15 May 1932 |
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| Monarch | Shōwa |
| Preceded by | Wakatsuki Reijirō |
| Succeeded by | Takahashi Korekiyo (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 June 1855 Okayama, Japan |
| Died | 15 May 1932 (aged 76) Tokyo, Japan |
| Resting place | Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan |
| Political party | Rikken Seiyūkai (1924–1932) |
| Other political affiliations |
Rikken Kaishintō (1882–1894) Chūgoku Progressive Party (1894–1896) Shimpotō (1896–1898) Kenseitō (1898–1910) Rikken Kokumintō (1910–1922) Kakushin Club (1922–1924) |
| Children | Inukai Takeru |
| Alma mater | Keio University |
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Inukai Tsuyoshi (犬養 毅?, 4 June 1855 – 15 May 1932) was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister, and Prime Minister of Japan from 13 December 1931 to 15 May 1932.
Inukai was born to a former samurai family of the Niwase Domain, in Niwase village, Bizen Province (now part of Okayama city, Okayama Prefecture), where his father had been a local official and magistrate under the Tokugawa shogunate.
In 1876, Inukai travelled to Tokyo and subsequently graduated from the Keio Gijuku (now Keio University) where he specialized in Chinese studies. In his early career, Inukai worked as a journalist for the Yūbin Hōchi Shimbun (now a sports newspaper subsidiary of the Yomiuri Shimbun). He went with the Imperial Japanese Army to the front during the Satsuma Rebellion as a reporter.
Inukai was invited by Ōkuma Shigenobu to help form the Rikken Kaishintō political party in 1882, which supported liberal political causes, strongly opposed the domination of the government by members of the former Chōshū and Satsuma domains, and called for a British-style constitutional monarchy within the framework of a parliamentary democracy.
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