1. Yukihiko Ikeda was a Japanese bureaucrat and the Liberal Democratic Party politician who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1997.
17 Facts About Yukihiko Ikeda
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Yukihiko Ikeda was born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on 13 May 1937.
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Yukihiko Ikeda studied law at the University of Tokyo and graduated in March 1961.
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Yukihiko Ikeda joined the Ministry of Finance in 1961 and worked as bureaucrat there.
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Yukihiko Ikeda won the largest number of votes in Hiroshima Prefecture's 2nd electoral district in the 1976 general election.
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Yukihiko Ikeda served as a lawmaker ten times until his retirement.
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Yukihiko Ikeda held key positions in the LDP and was the director general of the Defense Agency.
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Yukihiko Ikeda was appointed defense minister on 29 December 1990, replacing Yozo Ishikawa in the post.
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Yukihiko Ikeda served in the post until 5 November 1991 and was succeeded by Sohei Miyashita.
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Yukihiko Ikeda's remarks led to angry public demonstrations in Seoul.
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Yukihiko Ikeda led Japan's attempts to solve the hostage crisis in Peru in the 1990s.
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Yukihiko Ikeda was replaced by Keizo Obuchi as foreign minister on 11 September 1997.
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Later Yukihiko Ikeda became the policy chief or top policy planner of the LDP in 1998.
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Yukihiko Ikeda was part of Koichi Kato's faction in the LDP.
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Yukihiko Ikeda was son-in-law of former Japanese prime minister Hayato Yukihiko Ikeda.
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Yukihiko Ikeda married Noriko Ikeda in May 1969, and took his wife's family name.
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Yukihiko Ikeda died of rectum cancer in Tokyo on 28 January 2004 at age 66.