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Prince Higashikuni

Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni
Prime Minister Prince Higashikuni delivers a Policy Speech to the 88th Extraordinary Session of the Imperial Diet.jpg
Native name 東久邇宮稔彦王
Born (1887-12-03)3 December 1887
Kyoto, Japan
Died 20 January 1990(1990-01-20) (aged 102)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater Imperial Japanese Army Academy
Army War College
Occupation Imperial Prince
General
Spouse(s) Toshiko, Princess Yasu
Parents
Prince Higashikuni
Tenure 3 November 1906 – 14 October 1947
Head of House of Higashikuni
Tenure 3 November 1906 – 20 January 1990
30th Prime Minister of Japan
In office 17 August 1945 – 9 October 1945
Predecessor Kantarō Suzuki
Successor Kijūrō Shidehara
Issue Morihiro Higashikuni
Moromasa Higashikuni
Akitsune Higashikuni
Toshihiko Higashikuni
Military career
Allegiance Empire of Japan
Service/branch War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service 1908–1945
Rank General
Commands held IJA 4th Division, Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, IJA 2nd Army, General Defense Command
Battles/wars Second Sino-Japanese War
Pacific War
Awards Order of the Chrysanthemum
Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, Order of the Golden Kite
Other work Prime Minister of Japan
Signature
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General Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (東久邇宮稔彦王 Higashikuni-no-miya Naruhiko Ō?, 3 December 1887 – 20 January 1990) was a Japanese imperial prince, a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 43rd Prime Minister of Japan from 17 August 1945 to 9 October 1945, a period of 54 days. An uncle-in-law of Emperor Hirohito twice over, Prince Higashikuni was the only member of the Japanese imperial family to head a cabinet and was the last general officer of the Imperial Japanese military to become Prime Minister. He was the founder of the Chiba Institute of Technology.

Prince Naruhiko was born in Kyoto, the ninth son of Prince Kuni Asahiko (Kuni no miya Asahiko Shinnō) and the court lady Terao Utako. His father, Prince Asahiko, was a son of Prince Fushimi Kuniie (Fushimi no miya Kuniie Shinnō), the twentieth head of the Fushimi-no-miya, the oldest of the sesshu shinnōke or cadet branches of the imperial dynasty from whom an emperor might be chosen in default of a direct heir. Prince Naruhiko was a half-brother of Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi, the father of the future Empress Kōjun, the wife of Emperor Hirohito. His other half-brothers, Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, Prince Nashimoto Morimasa, and Prince Kaya Kuninori, all formed new branches of the imperial family (ōke) during the Meiji period.


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