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Masayoshi Ito
伊東正義


Acting Prime Minister of Japan
In office 12 June 1980 – 17 July 1980
Monarch	Shōwa
Deputy	Himself
Preceded by	Masayoshi Ōhira
Succeeded by	Zenkō Suzuki
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 21 November 1963 – 21 May 1994
Constituency	Fukushima 2nd district

Personal details
Born	(1913-12-15)15 December 1913 Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Died	21 May 1994(1994-05-21) (aged 80) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University

Masayoshi Ito (伊東正義, Itō Masayoshi, 15 December 1913 – 21 May 1994) was a Japanese political figure. He served as acting Prime Minister of Japan in 1980 after the sudden death of Masayoshi Ōhira. He then served as foreign minister of Japan from 1980 to 1981.

Early life

Ito was born on 15 December 1913 in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, where his grandfather was a member of the Aizu clan.

Career

Following the death of Masayoshi Ōhira, Ito became the acting prime minister for a brief period of about a month. In this brief period, he received a report in July from the Comprehensive National Security Study Group which encouraged Ito to strengthen Japan–United States relations whilst also increasing Japanese military self-sufficiency in light of developments within socialist Asia, such as the Sino-Vietnamese War and the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, which seemed to signal reductions in American power on the continent. Following this brief period, Ito served as Foreign Minister from July 1980 to May 1981 in the cabinet of Zenko Suzuki, but he resigned from this position following American outrage at what the US government perceived as the Japanese government distancing itself from the US-Japanese military alliance following the previously mentioned Asian war developments.

Ito developed a reputation as a "clean" and honest politician who did not become mired in scandals, and for this reason was suggested as a possible successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita after he resigned in disgrace due to the Recruit scandal, although Ito expressed doubts about whether the LDP was serious about reform after top party bosses rejected his comprehensive reform agenda and he thus declined.

Personal life

Ito was a cinephile and a fan of Mitsuko Mori. Ito, then battling with diabetes, died on 21 May 1994.

References

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Party political offices
Preceded byMasayuki Fujio	Chair, Policy Research Committee of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan 1986–1987	Succeeded byMichio Watanabe
Preceded byShintaro Abe	Chair, General Affairs Committee of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan 1987–1989	Succeeded byKiyoshi Mizuno
Political offices
Preceded byRokusuke Tanaka	Chief Cabinet Secretary 1979–1980	Succeeded byKiichi Miyazawa
Preceded byTakeo Fukuda	Deputy Prime Minister of Japan 1980	Succeeded byShin Kanemaru
Preceded byMasayoshi Ōhira	Prime Minister of Japan Acting 1980	Succeeded byZenko Suzuki
Preceded bySaburo Ōkita	Minister of Foreign Affairs 1980–1981	Succeeded bySunao Sonoda

Prime ministers of Japan (list)

Empire of Japan
(1868–1947)

Meiji era (1868–1912)	H. Itō Kuroda Sanjō (caretaker) Yamagata Matsukata H. Itō Kuroda (acting) Matsukata H. Itō Ōkuma Yamagata H. Itō Saionji (acting) Katsura Saionji
Taishō era (1912–1926)	Katsura Saionji Katsura Yamamoto Ōkuma Terauchi Hara Uchida (acting) Takahashi To. Katō Uchida (acting) Yamamoto Kiyoura Ta. Katō Wakatsuki
Shōwa era (1926–1947)	G. Tanaka Hamaguchi Shidehara (acting) Hamaguchi Wakatsuki Inukai Takahashi (acting) Saitō Okada Gotō (acting) Okada Hirota Hayashi Konoe Hiranuma N. Abe Yonai Konoe Tōjō Koiso K. Suzuki Higashikuni Shidehara Yoshida

State of Japan
(1947–present)

Shōwa era (1947–1989)	Katayama Ashida Yoshida I. Hatoyama Ishibashi Kishi Ikeda Satō K. Tanaka Miki T. Fukuda Ōhira M. Itō (acting) Z. Suzuki Nakasone Takeshita
Heisei era (1989–2019)	Uno Kaifu Miyazawa Hosokawa Hata Murayama Hashimoto Obuchi Aoki Mori Koizumi S. Abe Y. Fukuda Asō Y. Hatoyama Kan Noda S. Abe
Reiwa era (2019–present)	Suga Kishida Ishiba