Ichirō Kōno
Ichirō Kōno | |
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河野 一郎 | |
Kōno in 1953 | |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 18 July 1964 – 8 July 1965 | |
| Prime Minister | Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Satō |
| Preceded by | Shūji Masutani (1960) |
| Succeeded by | Takeo Miki (1972) |
| Minister of Construction | |
| In office 18 July 1962 – 18 July 1964 | |
| Prime Minister | Hayato Ikeda |
| Preceded by | Umekichi Nakamura |
| Succeeded by | Osanori Koyama |
| Minister of Agriculture and Forestry | |
| In office 18 July 1961 – 18 July 1962 | |
| Prime Minister | Hayato Ikeda |
| Preceded by | Hideyo Sutō |
| Succeeded by | Seishi Shigemasa |
| In office 10 December 1954 – 23 December 1956 | |
| Prime Minister | Ichirō Hatoyama |
| Preceded by | Shigeru Hori |
| Succeeded by | Ichitarō Ide |
| Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency | |
| In office 10 July 1957 – 12 June 1958 | |
| Prime Minister | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Preceded by | Kōichi Uda |
| Succeeded by | Takeo Miki |
| Director-General of the Administrative Management Agency | |
| In office 22 November 1955 – 23 December 1956 | |
| Prime Minister | Ichirō Hatoyama |
| Preceded by | Shōjirō Kawashima |
| Succeeded by | Tomejirō Ōkubo |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 2 October 1952 – 8 July 1965 | |
| Preceded by | Kenzō Kōno |
| Succeeded by | Yōhei Kōno |
| Constituency | Kanagawa 3rd |
| In office 21 February 1932 – 22 June 1946 | |
| Preceded by | Kyūjirō Okazaki |
| Succeeded by | Inosuke Nakanishi |
| Constituency | Kanagawa 3rd (1932–1946) Kanagawa at-large (1946) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 June 1898 |
| Died | 8 July 1965 (aged 67) |
| Party | Liberal Democratic (1955–1965) |
| Other political affiliations | Rikken Seiyūkai (1932–1940) IRAA (1940–1945) JLP (1945–1946) LP (1951–1953) LP–H (1953–1954) JDP (1954–1955) |
| Children | Yōhei Kōno |
| Relatives | Kenzō Kōno (brother) Taro Kono (grandson) |
| Alma mater | Waseda University |
Ichirō Kōno (河野 一郎, Kōno Ichirō; June 2, 1898 – July 8, 1965) was a Japanese politician during the postwar period who served as Deputy Prime Minister and a member of the National Diet. As Deputy Prime Minister, he was in charge of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was the head of the powerful "Kōno Faction" within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Kōno aspired to become prime minister, but although he held a large number of important party and cabinet positions, reflecting his power and influence, he was not able to rise to the premiership before his death in 1965.
Elected to represent a portion of Kanagawa Prefecture, Kōno also exercised a powerful influence over his home prefecture, to such an extent that Kanagawa came to be nicknamed "Kōno Kingdom" (河野王国, Kōno ōkoku).