Osachi Hamaguchi

Osachi Hamaguchi was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister and Prime Minister of Japan fromJuly 1929 toApril 1931. Nicknamed the Lion Prime Minister due to his dignified demeanor and manelike hair, Hamaguchi served as leading member of the liberal Rikken Minseit during the Taish Democracy of interwar Japan he survived an assassination attempt by a rightwing fanatic in 1930, but died a few months later.

Hamaguchi was born in Nagaoka District, Tosa Province . He was the third son of Minaguchi Tanehira, an official in the local forestry department, and took the Hamaguchi name on his marriage to Hamaguchi Natsuko in 1889. Hamaguchi graduated from the Law College of Tokyo Imperial University in 1895 and began his career as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Finance. In 1907, he rose to the position of Director of the Monopoly Bureau. He became Vice Communications Minister in 1912 and Vice Finance Minister in 1914.

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