17 Facts About Hamaguchi Osachi

Hamaguchi Osachi was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931.

Hamaguchi Osachi was a member of the House of Representatives from 1915 until his death.

Hamaguchi Osachi initially survived an assassination attempt by a right-wing extremist in 1930, but died about nine months later from a bacterial infection in his unhealed wounds.

Hamaguchi Osachi was born in Nagaoka District, Tosa Province.

Hamaguchi Osachi 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 Osachi graduated from the Law College of Tokyo Imperial University in 1895 and began his career as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Finance.

Hamaguchi Osachi became Vice Communications Minister in 1912 and Vice Finance Minister in 1914.

Hamaguchi Osachi joined the Rikken Doshikai political party led by Kato Takaaki in 1915, which became the Kenseikai in 1916.

Hamaguchi Osachi was elected to the lower house in the Japanese Diet in 1915 from the Kochi Second District, and was to hold onto this seat until his death in 1931.

In June 1924, Hamaguchi Osachi served as Finance Minister under the Kato Takaaki Cabinet, holding the same portfolio under the First Wakatsuki Cabinet from January to June 1926.

Hamaguchi Osachi was Home Minister in the Wakatsuki cabinet from June 1926 to April 1927.

In 1927, Hamaguchi Osachi became the chairman of the new Rikken Minseito political party formed by the merger of the Kenseikai and the Seiyuhonto.

The opposition Rikken Seiyukai joined forces with the vocal anti-Treaty faction within the Imperial Japanese Navy to accuse Hamaguchi Osachi of infringing of the military's "right of supreme command" as guaranteed under the Meiji Constitution.

Hamaguchi Osachi was reelected to a second term as Prime Minister of Japan in March 1931.

Hamaguchi Osachi was one of many people involved in politically motivated murders, including that of prime ministers, to have their sentences reduced.

Hamaguchi Osachi continued to be involved in far-right activities until his death.

In 1931 Hamaguchi Osachi's cabinet sponsored a bill on women's suffrage.