Editing Shigeru Yoshida (section)

===Conflict with Hatoyama===
[[File:Yoshida meets Hatoyama.jpg|thumb|left|Yoshida meeting with [[Ichirō Hatoyama]]]]
Before the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco Ichirō Hatoyama had been released from the purge. Since Yoshida had originally become prime minister as a replacement for Hatoyama, many expected him to step down in Hatoyama's favour, but by this time Yoshida had become a well-established politician in his own right and had no intention to retire. This led to a conflict with Hatoyama.<ref name=NDL>{{cite web |url=https://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/e/cha6/description03.html |title=6-3 Confrontation between Yoshida and Hatoyama |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2006–2010 |website=Modern Japan in archives |publisher=National Diet Library |access-date=21 June 2024 }}</ref>

According to CIA files that were declassified in 2005, there was a 1952 plot to assassinate Yoshida and replace him with Ichirō Hatoyama as prime minister. The plot was led by [[Takushiro Hattori]], who served as an [[Imperial Japanese Army]] officer, and had the support of 500,000 Japanese people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1Y1-103753957.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924205011/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1Y1-103753957.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 September 2015|title=CIA Papers Reveal 1950s Japan Coup Plot|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=28 February 2007|access-date=11 August 2015 |via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref>

Dissatisfaction with his leadership led to the defection of many Diet members from his party to the new [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1954)|Democratic Party]], causing his cabinet to resign on December 7, 1954, rather than face a no-confidence vote. He was replaced by [[Ichirō Hatoyama]] on December 10, 1954. Yoshida resigned as party president in favour of [[Taketora Ogata]] at the same time. He remained in the Diet until his retirement in 1963.