Editing Takeo Fukuda

{{short description|Prime Minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978}}
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| honorific_prefix    = 
| name                = Takeo Fukuda
| native_name         = {{nobold|福田 赳夫}}
| native_name_lang    = ja
| image               = Takeo Fukuda 19761224.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 1976
| office              = [[Prime Minister of Japan]]
| monarch             = [[Hirohito]]
| term_start          = 24 December 1976
| term_end            = 7 December 1978
| predecessor         = [[Takeo Miki]]
| successor           = [[Masayoshi Ōhira]]
| office1             = [[President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|President of the Liberal Democratic Party]]
| vicepresident1      = [[Funada Naka]]
| 1blankname1         = {{nowrap|[[Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party|Secretary-General]]}}
| 1namedata1          = [[Masayoshi Ōhira]]
| term_start1         = 23 December 1976
| term_end1           = 1 December 1978
| predecessor1        = Takeo Miki
| successor1          = Masayoshi Ōhira
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{{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes
| office2             = [[Deputy Prime Minister of Japan]]
| primeminister2      = [[Takeo Miki]]
| term_start2         = 9 December 1974
| term_end2           = 6 November 1976
| predecessor2        = ''Vacant''
| successor2          = ''Vacant''
| office3             = Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency
| primeminister3      = Takeo Miki
| term_start3         = 9 December 1974
| term_end3           = 6 November 1976
| predecessor3        = [[Tadashi Kuranari]]
| successor3          = [[Uichi Noda]]
| office4             = [[Minister of Finance (Japan)|Minister of Finance]]
| primeminister4      = [[Kakuei Tanaka]]
| term_start4         = 25 November 1973
| term_end4           = 16 July 1974
| predecessor4        = [[Kiichi Aichi]]
| successor4          = [[Masayoshi Ōhira]]
| primeminister5      = [[Eisaku Satō]]
| term_start5         = 30 November 1968
| term_end5           = 5 July 1971
| predecessor5        = [[Mikio Mizuta]]
| successor5          = Mikio Mizuta
| primeminister6      = Eisaku Satō
| term_start6         = 3 June 1965
| term_end6           = 3 December 1966
| predecessor6        = Kakuei Tanaka
| successor6          = Mikio Mizuta
| office7             = Director-General of the Administrative Management Agency
| primeminister7      = Kakuei Tanaka
| term_start7         = 22 December 1972
| term_end7           = 25 November 1973
| predecessor7        = [[Seigo Hamano]]
| successor7          = [[Shigeru Hori]]
| office8             = [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Minister for Foreign Affairs]]
| primeminister8      = Eisaku Satō
| term_start8         = 5 July 1971
| term_end8           = 7 July 1972
| predecessor8        = Kiichi Aichi
| successor8          = Masayoshi Ōhira
| office9             = [[Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)|Minister of Agriculture and Forestry]]
| primeminister9      = [[Nobusuke Kishi]]
| term_start9         = 18 June 1959
| term_end9           = 19 July 1960
| predecessor9        = [[Kunio Miura]]
| successor9          = [[Tokuo Nanjō]]
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| office10            = Member of the [[House of Representatives (Japan)|House of Representatives]]
| constituency10      = [[Gunma 3rd district (1947–1993)|Gunma 3rd]]
| term_start10        = 1 October 1952
| term_end10          = 18 February 1990
| predecessor10       = ''Multi-member district''
| successor10         = [[Yasuo Fukuda]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1905|1|14|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Takasaki]], [[Gunma]], [[Empire of Japan]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1995|7|5|1905|1|14|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Mie Fukuda|1933}}
| children            = 5 (incl. [[Yasuo Fukuda|Yasuo]])
| signature           = FukudaT kao.png
| party               = [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic]]
| otherparty          = [[Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)|Liberal]]
| alma_mater          = [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]]
}}
{{Conservatism in Japan|Politicians}}

{{nihongo|'''Takeo Fukuda'''|福田 赳夫|''Fukuda Takeo''|14 January 1905 – 5 July 1995}} was a Japanese politician who served as [[Prime Minister of Japan|prime minister of Japan]] from 1976 to 1978.

Born in [[Gunma Prefecture]] and educated at [[Tokyo Imperial University]], Fukuda served as an official in the [[Ministry of Finance (Japan)|Ministry of Finance]] for two decades before entering politics. He was first elected to the Diet in 1952, and served as agriculture, forestry, and fisheries minister in 1959–1960 under [[Nobusuke Kishi]], as head of the party's political affairs section under [[Hayato Ikeda]], and as finance minister (1965–1966, 1968–1971) and foreign minister (1971–1972) under [[Eisaku Satō]], becoming his protégé. Fukuda's political life was marked by a rivalry with [[Kakuei Tanaka]], who succeeded Satō as prime minister in 1972 and under whom Fukuda served as finance minister from 1973 to 1974. As prime minister from 1976, Fukuda formulated the [[Fukuda Doctrine]], which pledged trust and cooperation with Asian countries, and concluded the [[Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China]] in 1978. He was succeeded as premier in 1978 by [[Masayoshi Ōhira]].

His son, [[Yasuo Fukuda]], followed him as a politician and served as prime minister from 2007 to 2008.

==Early life and bureaucratic career==
Fukuda was born in the village of Kaneko in [[Gunma prefecture]] (present day [[Takasaki|Takasaki City]]) on January 14, 1905, the second son to an old [[samurai]] family who had been village headmen in the [[Edo period]]. His father was the mayor of Kaneko, his grandfather had also been mayor and his older brother eventually filled the same role. Fukuda was a gifted student who went on to [[First Higher School]] in [[Tokyo]], followed by studying law at [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]]. He received the top score on the civil service examination and entered the [[Ministry of Finance (Japan)|Ministry of Finance]] upon graduating in 1929.<ref name=Kotobank>{{cite web|author=Kotobank|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%A6%8F%E7%94%B0%E8%B5%B3%E5%A4%AB-124083 |website=Kotobank |title=Fukuda Takeo |language=ja |access-date=March 7, 2023}}</ref><ref name=pace/><ref name=sayle/>

Fukuda was assigned as financial attaché to the [[embassy of Japan in London]] the following year. After three years he was called back to Japan to serve as the head of a local Tax Office.<ref name=MacDougall>{{cite book |last=MacDougall |first=Terry Edward |date=1982-01-01 |title=Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VaD6DwAAQBAJ |publisher=University of Michigan Press |pages=23–25 |isbn=9780939512065}}</ref>

At this time he married Mie Arai, the granddaughter of a [[Supreme Court of Judicature of Japan|Supreme Court]] justice. The couple came to have three sons and two daughters. [[Yasuo Fukuda]] was their eldest son. Fukuda steadily rose in the ranks of the Ministry. During the [[Pacific War]] he served as an adviser on fiscal policy for the [[Wang Jingwei regime]].<ref name=MacDougall />

At the time of the [[surrender of Japan|Japanese surrender]], Fukuda was chief secretary and head of the Minister's Secretariat. [[Masayoshi Ohira]] and [[Kiichi Miyazawa]] were his subordinates at that time. He became chief of the Banking Bureau in 1946 and by 1947 he had risen to chief of the Budget Bureau. Fukuda was in line to become administrative vice minister, however in 1948 he was arrested in connection to the [[Showa Denko]] scandal, a corruption scandal involving several bureaucrats, businessmen and politicians which precipitated the fall of the [[Hitoshi Ashida|Ashida]] administration. Fukuda was later acquitted, but the incident led him to resign from the Ministry in 1950.<ref name=Kotobank /><ref name=sayle>{{cite news|last=Sayle|first=Murray|title=Obituary: Takeo Fukuda|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-takeo-fukuda-1590409.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-takeo-fukuda-1590409.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=12 January 2013|newspaper=The Independent|date=8 July 1996}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Yoshida|first=Kiyohisa|title=そろって大目玉をくらった３人の「総理大臣」 |url=https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/column/henshu/20230517-OYT8T50019 |date=23 May 2023 |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 June 2023|newspaper=Yomiuri Shimbun}}</ref>

==Political career==
In the [[1952 Japanese general election|1952 election]], Fukuda was elected as an independent to the House of Representatives, representing the [[Gunma's 3rd district (1947-1993)|third district of Gunma]].

Fukuda grew close to [[Nobusuke Kishi]], who was making a political comeback. He joined the [[Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)|Liberal Party]] along with Kishi in 1953 and when Kishi was expelled the following year Fukuda left with him and took part in forming the [[Japan Democratic Party|Democratic Party]]. Fukada became a prized lieutenant to Kishi.<ref name=MacDougall /><ref>{{cite web|last=Inoue |first=Masaya |url=https://10mtv.jp/pc/content/detail.php?movie_id=4909 |website=10MTV |publisher=Imagineer Co., Ltd. |title=昭電疑獄で大蔵省を去り政界へ…なぜ岸信介に惹かれたのか |language=ja |access-date=March 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0674984424|page=25}}</ref>

The two parties merged to form the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] in 1955. After Kishi became prime minister, Fukuda became chairman of the Policy Research Council in 1958 and secretary-general in January 1959. Fukuda joined the cabinet in June as Minister of Agriculture, remaining until the Kishi was forced to resign as prime minister due to the massive [[Anpo protests|1960 Anpo protests]] against the U.S.-Japan Security treaty.

After that, [[Hayato Ikeda]] was elected as LDP president and prime minister with the support of Kishi and his brother [[Eisaku Satō]]. Fukuda again became chairman of the Policy Research Council in December 1960. Before long, the alliance between Ikeda, Kishi and Satō began to fray. Satō wanted to succeed Ikeda and Kishi was inclined to support him, but Ikeda intended to have a long-term administration. In the reshuffle of July 1961, Ikeda treated his former opponents [[Banboku Ōno]] and [[Ichirō Kōno]] generously to balance the influence of Kishi and Satō. Fukuda for his part lost his position as policy chairman.

In January 1962, Fukuda formed the "Party Spirit Renovation League" (''Tōfū Sasshin Renmei''), which became a forum for Diet members to air anti-Ikeda grievances.<ref name="Kapur 2018 96">{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0674984424|page=96}}</ref> The Kishi faction began to split between those who opposed or supported Ikeda, led by Fukuda and {{ill|Shojiro Kawashima|jp|川島正次郎|vertical-align=sup}} respectively. Kishi disbanded the faction in July 1962 and all but the group close to Kawashima joined Fukuda, who became Kishi's de facto successor as factional leader.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Watanabe|first=Tsuneo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=De_WAAAAQBAJ|title=Japan's Backroom Politics: Factions in a Multiparty Age|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2013|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0739173909|page=106}}</ref>

Satō decided not to stand in the 1962 LDP leadership election and Ikeda successfully ran unopposed, but the 70 or so members of the Party Spirit Renovation League cast blank ballots in protest.<ref name="Kapur 2018 96"/> In the 1964 leadership election Fukuda strongly supported Satō against Ikeda. Satō was defeated, but soon afterwards Ikeda fell ill and had to resign as prime minister, naming Satō as his successor.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0674984424|page=98}}</ref>

Although Fukuda remained locked out of the cabinet during the Ikeda years, his star began to rise again under Satō. Fukuda rose to the prestigious posts of Minister of Finance (1965–66, 1968–71) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1971–72). After Satō's third and final term as prime minister came to an end in 1972, Fukuda ran as a candidate to replace him but lost out to insurgent candidate [[Kakuei Tanaka]]. Under Tanaka, Fukuda once again served as Minister of Finance (1973–74), and even when the Tanaka cabinet fell due to a corruption scandal, Fukuda was seen as "clean" and served a stint as Director of the Economic Planning Agency under the ensuing cabinet of [[Takeo Miki]] (1974–76).

== Premiership ==
After the LDP's poor showing in the 1976 election, Miki stepped down as prime minister and Fukuda was elected to replace him. Fukuda remained in office until 1978,<ref name="pace" /> but was forced to rely on the support of minor parties to maintain a parliamentary majority. Although he was regarded as a conservative and a [[hawk]] on foreign policy, Fukuda drew international criticism when he caved in to the demands of a group of terrorists who hijacked [[Japan Airlines Flight 472 (1977)|Japan Airlines Flight 472]], saying "''Jinmei wa chikyū yori omoi'' (The value of a human life outweighs the Earth)."
[[File:Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister of Japan, Takeo Fukuda - NARA - 174134.tif|thumb|left|200px|with [[Jimmy Carter]] (21 March 1977)]]
In matters of [[Sino-Japanese relations]], Fukuda began as one of the LDP's conservative [[pro-Taiwan]] voices. However, by the time he had become prime minister, he was forced to accommodate increasing calls within both the LDP as well as [[Japan Business Federation|Japanese big business]] to further pursue peace treaty negotiations with the People's Republic of China in order to bring about increased access to trade in the long run. Fukuda stalled on this for a number of reasons. For one, there was still continued resistance among some in the LDP who were pro-Taiwan. Moreover, [[Japan–Soviet Union relations|relations with the Soviet Union]] were only recently recovering from disputes over fisheries, and as China and the Soviet Union [[Sino-Soviet split|had strained relations]], Fukuda was careful not to favour one too much over the other. The primary dispute, however, was China's insistence on the treaty to contain an "anti-hegemony clause" which Japan viewed as being directed towards the [[Soviet Union]], and Fukuda did not wish Japan to become involved in the Sino-Soviet schism. After treaty discussions spent much time in limbo, the Chinese side eventually expressed flexibility on the anti-hegemony issue, and Fukuda gave the greenlight to pursue them. Before long, however, pro-Taiwan voices in the LDP placed intense pressure on the Fukuda, and further indecision led to Fukuda's approval ratings to dip down to 20%. Eventually, after further discussion, Fukuda finally consented to a modified version of the treaty which later became the [[Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kim|first=Hong N.|date=1979-03-01|title=The Fukuda Government and the Politics of the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty|url=https://online.ucpress.edu/as/article/19/3/297/3463/The-Fukuda-Government-and-the-Politics-of-the|journal=Asian Survey|language=en|volume=19|issue=3|pages=297–313|doi=10.2307/2643695|jstor=2643695|issn=0004-4687}}</ref>
[[File:G7 leaders 1978.jpg|thumb|left|200px|with [[Giulio Andreotti]], [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Helmut Schmidt]] and [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]] (at the [[4th G7 summit]] on 16 July 1978)]]
On 18 August 1977, Fukuda delivered an address at the [[ASEAN]] summit in [[Manila]], which had been popularly dubbed as the "Fukuda Doctrine." In this speech, Fukuda was mainly concerned with three goals: overcoming the psychological barriers between [[Southeast Asia]] and Japan which came about [[Japanese war crimes|due to World War II]] by reaffirming Japan's [[Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution|commitment to pacifism]], increasing mutual "heart-to-heart" confidence between Japan and ASEAN countries, and the willingness of Japan to be an "equal partner" with ASEAN countries (rather than [[Japanese economic miracle|the economic giant]] it was feared as). In order to bolster these promises, Fukuda clarified Japanese willingness to provide for loans and development assistance, but under the condition that ASEAN does not require Japan to commit to joining an exclusivist [[Trade bloc|trading block]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=HADDAD|first=WILLIAM W.|date=1980|title=Japan, the Fukuda Doctrine, and ASEAN|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25797599|journal=Contemporary Southeast Asia|volume=2|issue=1|pages=10–29|jstor=25797599|issn=0129-797X}}</ref>

In an effort to end the LDP's faction system, Fukuda introduced [[Partisan primary|primary election]]s within the party. In the first primary towards the end of 1978, he was beaten by [[Masayoshi Ōhira]] for the presidency of the LDP, and forced to resign as prime minister. Fukuda was later instrumental in the formation of the [[Inter Action Council]]. He retired from politics in 1990.<ref name=sayle/>

==Personal life==
[[File:Jimmy Carter with Queen Elizabeth - NARA - 174724.jpg|thumb|200px|with [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]], [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]], [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]], [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]] and the leaders of the [[G7]] (in [[London]] on 13 May 1977)]]
Fukuda was married and had five children: three sons and two daughters.<ref name=pace/> His eldest son, [[Yasuo Fukuda]], became prime minister in September 2007, after the sudden resignation of Shinzō Abe, and remained in that office for one year, making him the first son of a Japanese prime minister to become a prime minister himself.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2500575.ece|title=The reluctant Prime Minister prepares to step up to the plate|first=Richard|last=Parry|date=21 September 2007|work=The Times Online|publisher=News International Group}}</ref> In addition, Prime Minister [[Junichiro Koizumi]] began his political career as a secretary to Fukuda, and the two were very close in their political and personal lives from the 1970s onward (Fukuda was the best man at Koizumi's wedding).

In his 1977 speech delivered to [[ASEAN]], Fukuda identified controversial [[Philippines|Filipino]] dictator [[Ferdinand Marcos]] as a close friend of his.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1980|title=Speech by Takeo Fukuda|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25797604|journal=Contemporary Southeast Asia|publisher=ISEAS—Yusof Ishak Institute|volume=2|issue=1|pages=69–73|jstor=25797604|issn=0129-797X}}</ref>

==Death==
Fukuda died of chronic [[emphysema]] in the hospital of Tokyo Women's Medical College on 5 July 1995 at the age of 90.<ref name=pace>{{cite news|last=Pace|first=Eric|title=Takeo Fukuda, 90, Ex-Premier And Backer of China Pact, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/06/obituaries/takeo-fukuda-90-ex-premier-and-backer-of-china-pact-dies.html|access-date=12 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=6 July 1995}}</ref>

==Honours==
*[[Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum]] (5 July 1995; posthumous)<ref>''From the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia''</ref>
*[[Golden Pheasant Award]] of the [[Scout Association of Japan]] (1979)<ref name="reinanzaka">{{Cite web |date=2014-05-23|script-title=ja:䝪䞊䜲䝇䜹䜴䝖日本連盟 きじ章受章者 |trans-title=Recipient of the Golden Pheasant Award of the Scout Association of Japan |url=http://reinanzaka-sc.o.oo7.jp/kiroku/documents/20140523-3-kiji-list.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811030258/http://reinanzaka-sc.o.oo7.jp/kiroku/documents/20140523-3-kiji-list.pdf |archive-date=2020-08-11 |website=Reinanzaka Scout Club| language=ja}}</ref>

== References ==
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