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==Early life== Masayoshi Ōhira was born on 12 March 1910, in Wada, [[Kagawa Prefecture]] (present-day [[Kan'onji, Kagawa]]), the third son of farmer Toshiyoshi Ōhira and his wife Saku.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Hattori |first1=Ryūji |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/879561049 |title=Ōhira Masayoshi : rinen to gaikō |last2=服部龍二 |date=2014 |isbn=978-4-00-029129-3 |pages=3–5 |publisher=Iwanami Shoten |oclc=879561049}}</ref> His father was a representative of the village council and the irrigation union although he had not received any education.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Fukunaga |first1=Fumio |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/294936502 |title=Ōhira Masayoshi : "sengo hoshu" to wa nani ka |last2=福永文夫 |date=2008 |publisher=Chūō Kōron Shinsha |isbn=978-4-12-101976-9 |pages=15–17 |oclc=294936502}}</ref> He had eight siblings (two elder brothers, three elder sisters, a younger brother and a younger sister) but the eldest of the sisters had died before her first birthday and one of his elder brothers had died at age two.<ref name=":1" /> Ōhira referred to himself as "the son of an impoverished farmer of [[Sanuki Province|Sanuki]]" but in reality his family was middle-class.<ref name=":0" /> But even then, the parents had a hard time supporting their six children, and Ōhira assisted their side job from a young age.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In 1926, when he was 16 years old, Ōhira contracted [[typhoid fever]] and nearly died. This near death experience contributed to his conversion to [[Christianity]] around that time. In 1933, when he was 23, Ōhira won two scholarships and was able to belatedly attend university at the Tokyo University of Commerce (present-day [[Hitotsubashi University]]), where he studied economics. In 1936, he entered the [[Ministry of Finance]], where he became a protégé of [[Hayato Ikeda]]. Ōhira worked in the Ministry of Finance throughout [[World War II]]. In the postwar period, when Ikeda became Minister of Finance from 1949 to 1952, Ōhira served as his private secretary.
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