Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi Party Liberal Democratic Party Role Politician | Name Tatsunosuke Takasaki Preceded by Shigesaburo Maeo Succeeded by Hayato Ikeda | |
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Political party Liberal Democratic Party Died February 24, 1964, Tokyo, Japan | ||
Tatsunosuke Takasaki (高碕達之助, Takasaki Tatsunosuke, 7 February 1885 – 24 February 1964) was a Japanese businessman-politician.
Takasaki was born in Takatsuki, Japan, on 7 February 1885. After finishing school in Japan, Takasaki spent his younger days in Manchuria, and was the chairman of Manchurian Industrial Development Company and the head of the All Manchurian Japanese Association (Japanese: 全満日本人会) located in Xinjing, waiting for the repatriation from Huludao. Upon returning to Japan, he became the first chairman of Electric Power Development Company, the elected member of the House of Representatives of Japan, the head of the Japanese delegation to Asian–African Conference, the first head of the Economic Planning Agency of MITI, the initiator of the Sino-Japanese LT Trade Agreement, etc. He founded Toyo Seikan Kaisha in 1917, which has since become the largest container company in Japan and dominates the ASEAN market. He served in various Cabinet positions in the 1950s, including a period as Minister of International Trade and Industry from 1958 to 1959.
He died in Tokyo, on 24 February 1964.