Editing Keisuke Okada (section)

==Premiership (1934–1936)==
{{seealso|Okada Cabinet}}
In July 1934, Okada was named [[Prime Minister of Japan]] holding simultaneously the portfolio of [[Ministry of Colonial Affairs (Japan)|Minister of Colonial Affairs]]. In the month of September 1935, he also briefly held the portfolio of [[Ministry of Communications (Japan)|Minister of Post and Telecommunications]]. Okada was one of the democratic and moderate voices against the increasing strength of the [[Japanese militarism|militarists]], and was therefore a major target for extremist forces pushing for a more totalitarian Japan. He narrowly escaped assassination in the [[February 26 Incident]] of 1936, largely because rebel troops killed Colonel [[Denzō Matsuo]], brother-in-law as well as personal secretary of Okada's, by misidentifying him as the prime minister. Okada emerged from hiding on 29 February 1936. However, he left office a few days later.