Naoki Hoshino
Naoki Hoshino | |
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星野 直樹 | |
Hoshino Naoki at time of Tokyo Tribunal | |
| Chief Cabinet Secretary | |
| In office 18 October 1941 – 22 July 1944 | |
| Prime Minister | Hideki Tojo |
| Preceded by | Kenji Tomita |
| Succeeded by | Kunio Miura |
| President of the Planning Board | |
| In office 22 July 1940 – 4 April 1941 | |
| Prime Minister | Fumimaro Konoe |
| Preceded by | Kakichi Takeuchi |
| Succeeded by | Teiichi Suzuki |
| Member of the House of Peers | |
| In office 4 April 1941 – 15 December 1945 Nominated by the Emperor | |
| Director of the General Affairs Board of Manchukuo | |
| In office 16 December 1936 – 21 July 1940 | |
| Prime Minister | Zhang Jinghui |
| Preceded by | Shigeo Ōdachi |
| Succeeded by | Rokuzō Takebe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 October 1892 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Died | 16 January 1978 (aged 85) Tokyo, Japan |
| Party | Independent |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
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Naoki Hoshino (星野 直樹, Hoshino Naoki; 10 April 1892 – 26 January 1978) was a Japanese politician who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Prime Minister Hideki Tojo from 1941 to 1944. He served in the Ministry of Finance during the Taishō and early Shōwa period, and was a senior official in the Empire of Manchukuo.
After World War II he was prosecuted for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal of the Far East and sentenced to life imprisonment, but he was released in 1958.