K%C5%8Dichi Kido

Kichi Kido served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment of which he only servedyears of when he was released in 1953.

Kido was born in Akasaka, Tokyo, and was the grandnephew of Kido Takayoshi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration. After graduating from the Gakushuin Peers School in Tokyo, he went to the law school of Kyoto University, where Marxist economist Hajime Kawakami was one of his professors. After graduation in 1915, he held numerous minor bureaucratic posts in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, followed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Together with Shinji Yoshino and Nobusuke Kishi, he was one of the architects of the Strategic Industries Control Act on 1931, which set the stage for state control of numerous industries during the increasing militarization of Japan in the 1930s. Kido became chief secretary of the Home Ministry in 1930.

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