Aiichirō Fujiyama

Aiichirō Fujiyama (藤山 愛一郎, Fujiyama Aiichirō, May 22, 1897 – February 22, 1985) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and business executive.^[1]

Fujiyama memorial hall in Keio University Hiyoshi campus

The garden of Fujiyama family

Aiichirō Fujiyama
藤山 愛一郎
Fujiyama in 1951
Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency
In office 3 June 1965 – 4 November 1966
Prime Minister	Eisaku Satō
Preceded by	Mamoru Takahashi
Succeeded by	Eisaku Satō (acting)
In office 18 July 1961 – 6 July 1962
Prime Minister	Hayato Ikeda
Preceded by	Hisatsune Sakomizu
Succeeded by	Hayato Ikeda (acting)
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office 10 July 1957 – 19 July 1960
Prime Minister	Nobusuke Kishi
Preceded by	Nobusuke Kishi
Succeeded by	Zentaro Kosaka
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 23 May 1958 – 9 December 1976
Constituency	Kanagawa 1st
Chairman of Japan Airlines
In office August 1951 – September 1953
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Kunizō Hara
Personal details
Born	(1897-05-22)22 May 1897 Tokyo, Japan
Died	22 February 1985(1985-02-22) (aged 87) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Alma mater	Keio University (Incomplete)

A business executive who symbolized "big business" in Japan as president of Dai Nippon Sugar Manufacturing Co. and executive officer of Nitto Chemical Industry Co., he used his influence to bring about the fall of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō in 1944.

After Japan's World War II surrender, Fujiyama was imprisoned without a trial for three years, having been accused of "war crimes". After his release he represented Japan at the 1951 UNESCO meeting in Paris and later served as Chairman of Japan Airlines (1951-1953).

In 1955 and 1956, Fujiyama, who was Chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce at the time, strongly supported Nobusuke Kishi as a successor to Ichirō Hatoyama to the President of the Liberal Democratic Party, according to a report by the Central Intelligence Agency.^[2]

Fujiyama was elected to Parliament in 1957 and was reelected five times. As Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi (1957–60), he headed Japan's first delegation to the United Nations (1957), helped revise the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty (1960), and promoted the restoration of diplomatic relations between Japan and China. He also served in the cabinet of Kishi's successor Hayato Ikeda as Director of Japan's Economic Planning Agency.^[3]

During the 1960s, he controlled a personal faction within the LDP, closely aligned with the Kishi faction, and ran unsuccessfully several times for presidency of the LDP.

In 1970, Fujiyama made an unsanctioned trip to the People's Republic of China in an effort to expand Japanese trade relations with China.

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Aiichirō Fujiyama in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW