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Nakasone Yasuhiro

Yasuhiro Nakasone
中曾根 康弘
Yasuhiro Nakasone in Andrews cropped.jpg
Nakasone at Andrews Air Force Base in 1983
45th Prime Minister of Japan
In office
November 27, 1982 – November 6, 1987
Monarch Shōwa
Preceded by Zenkō Suzuki
Succeeded by Noboru Takeshita
Personal details
Born (1918-05-27) May 27, 1918 (age 98)
Takasaki, Japan
Political party Liberal Democratic Party
Children Hirofumi Nakasone
Alma mater

Tokyo Imperial University

″Military service″
Religion Shinto (Shūyōdan Hōseikai)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance  Empire of Japan
Service/branch  Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service 1941–1945
Rank Lieutenant-Commander
Battles/wars World War II

Tokyo Imperial University

Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘 Nakasone Yasuhiro?, born May 27, 1918) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from November 27, 1982 to November 6, 1987. A contemporary of Brian Mulroney, Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Bettino Craxi and Mikhail Gorbachev, he is best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister. At age 98, Nakasone is currently the oldest living former Japanese prime minister and the second oldest living former state leader in the world, after former Vietnamese Prime Minister Đỗ Mười.

Nakasone was born in Takasaki in Gunma, a poor mountainous prefecture in central Japan. He is the second son of Nakasone Matsugoro II, a lumber dealer, and Nakamura Yuku. He had five other siblings: an elder brother (Kichitaro), an elder sister (Shoko), a younger brother (Ryosuke) and another younger brother and younger sister who both died in childhood. The Nakasone family had been of the samurai class during the Edo era, and claimed direct descent from the Minamoto clan through the famous Minamoto no Yoshimitsu and through his son Minamoto no Yoshikiyo (d. 1149). According to family records, Tsunayoshi (k. 1417), a vassal of the Takeda clan and a tenth-generation descendant of Yoshikiyo, took the name of Nakasone Juro and was killed at the Battle of Sagamigawa. In about 1590, the samurai Nakasone Sōemon Mitsunaga settled in the town of Satomimura () in Kōzuke Province. His descendants became silk merchants and pawnbrokers. Nakasone's father, originally born Nakasone Kanichi, settled in Takasaki in 1912 and established a timber business and lumberyard which had success as a result of the post-First World War building boom.


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