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Keizō Hayashi

Keizō Hayashi
Keizo Hayashi 01 (cropped version).jpg
Hayashi as Chairman of the Joint Staff Council in 1954
Native name 林 敬三
Born (1907-01-08)8 January 1907
Ishikawa, Japan
Died 12 November 1991(1991-11-12) (aged 84)
Tokyo, Japan
Allegiance  Japan
Service/branch National Police Reserve
National Safety Force
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
Years of service 1950–1964
Rank
Awards
Annex: Major experience
  • Entered the Home Ministry and was posted to the Toyama Prefectural Office as a junior civilian official
    (1929)
  • Head of the Social Welfare Section of Kyoto Prefecture
    (1932)
  • Head of the Social Welfare Section of Kanagawa Prefecture
    (1935)
  • Head of Section One, Division One of the Cabinet Planning Board
    (1942)
  • Staff officer of the Cabinet and of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau
    (1943)
  • Inspector of the Home Ministry; Head of the General Affairs Section, Bureau of Local Affairs of the Home Ministry; Head of the Administration Section, Bureau of Local Affairs of the Home Ministry
    (1944)
  • Personal Secretary to the Minister of Home Affairs and Head of the Personnel Section of the Home Ministry
    (1945)
  • Governor of Tottori Prefecture
    (1945–1947)
  • Director of the Bureau of Local Affairs, Home Ministry
    (1947)
  • Director of Office of Domestic Affairs
    (1948)
  • Vice-Minister of Imperial Household
    (1948–1950)
  • Superintendent-General of the National Police Reserve
    (1950–1952)
  • Chief of the 1st (Ground) Staff
    (1952–1954)
  • Chairman of the Joint Staff Council
    (1954–1964)
  • President of the Japan Housing Corporation
    (1965–1971)
  • President of the Japanese Red Cross
    (1978–1987)
  • Member of the Second Provisional Council for the Promotion of Administrative Reform
    (1981)
  • President of the Japan Good Deeds Association
    (1983–1990)
  • Chairman of a "private advisory body on controversies surrounding official visits by Cabinet ministers to Yasukuni Shrine"
    (1984)

Keizō Hayashi (林 敬三 Hayashi Keizō?, 8 January 1907 – 12 November 1991) was a Japanese civil servant, general officer and the first Chairman of Joint Staff Council (JSC), a post equivalent to Chief of the General Staff in other countries, from 1954 to 1964. He was instrumental in founding the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) after the Second World War in 1954.

Hayashi began his civil service career in the Home Ministry in 1929. In post-war Japan, he became Governor of Tottori Prefecture from 1945 to 1947 and Director of the Bureau of Local Affairs from 1947 until the Home Ministry was disbanded in the same year. After that, he was appointed Vice-Minister of Imperial Household from 1948 to 1950, during which he became a confidant of Emperor Showa.

After the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, Hayashi, who did not have prewar military background, was chosen by Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, with the endorsement of the American occupation authority, to head the newly formed National Police Reserve (NPR) in the capacity as Superintendent-General. Since Japan had been demilitarized after the Second World War, one of his major tasks was to build up the NPR as the foundation of Japan's self-defense power in post-war era. He was also responsible for developing a new mind-set for the NPR so as to adapt to post-war changes. When the NPR was restructured as the National Safety Force (NSF) in 1952, he was appointed Chief of the 1st (Ground) Staff of the First Staff Office, which was the top decision making body of the NSF.


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