Yukihiko Ikeda | |
|---|---|
池田 行彦 | |
| Official portrait, 1996 | |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 11 January 1996 –11 September 1997 | |
| Prime Minister | Ryutaro Hashimoto |
| Preceded by | Yōhei Kōno |
| Succeeded by | KeizōObuchi |
| Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency | |
| In office 29 December 1990 –5 November 1991 | |
| Prime Minister | Toshiki Kaifu |
| Preceded by | Yozo Ishikawa |
| Succeeded by | Sohei Miyashita |
| Head of the Management and Coordination Agency | |
| In office 3 June 1989 –10 August 1989 | |
| Prime Minister | Sōsuke Uno |
| Preceded by | SaburōKanemaru |
| Succeeded by | Kiyoshi Mizuno |
| Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (Political affairs) | |
| In office 30 November 1981 –27 November 1982 | |
| Prime Minister | ZenkōSuzuki |
| Preceded by | Riki Kawara |
| Succeeded by | Takao Fujinami |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 10 December 1976 –28 January 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | Minoru Terada |
| Constituency | Hiroshima 2nd (1976–1996) Hiroshima 5th (1996–2004) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 May 1937 Kobe,Japan |
| Died | 28 January 2004 (aged 66) Tokyo,Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
Yukihiko Ikeda (池田行彦,Ikeda Yukihiko,13 May 1937 –28 January 2004) was a Japanese bureaucrat and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) politician who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1997. [1] Ikeda was known to be "Mr. No" in the political life. [2]
Ikeda was born in Kobe,Hyōgo Prefecture,on 13 May 1937. [3] Following the death of his father in 1944,he moved to Nakajima Honmachi,Hiroshima where his father's family lived. Ikeda studied law at the University of Tokyo and graduated in March 1961. [4]
Ikeda joined the ministry of finance in 1961 [5] and worked as bureaucrat there. [4] Then he became a member of the House of Representatives in 1976 following his membership to the LDP. [4] [6] He won the largest number of votes (55,027) in Hiroshima Prefecture's 2nd electoral district in the 1976 general election. [7] He served as a lawmaker ten times until his retirement. [8] He held key positions in the LDP and was the director general of the Defense Agency. [8] His other posts included chairman of the LDP's decision-making general council and head of the policy research council. [6] He was appointed defense minister on 29 December 1990,replacing Yozo Ishikawa in the post. [9] He served in the post until 5 November 1991 and was succeeded by Sohei Miyashita. [9]
Ikeda's second tenure as foreign minister was from 11 January 1996 to 11 September 1997 in the coalition government headed by Ryutaro Hashimoto. [8] [10] [11] Ikeda replaced Yōhei Kōno as foreign minister. [10] Upon the construction of a wharf facility in Takeshima/Dokdo by the South Korean government at the beginning of 1996,Ikeda protested over the construction and demanded that the South Korean government should stop it. [12] His remarks led to angry public demonstrations in Seoul. [12] He led Japan's attempts to solve the hostage crisis in Peru in the 1990s. [8] Ikeda was replaced by KeizōObuchi as foreign minister on 11 September 1997. [10]
Later Ikeda became the policy chief or top policy planner of the LDP in 1998. [2] [13] He was part of Koichi Kato's faction in the LDP. [2]
Ikeda was son-in-law of former Japanese prime minister Hayato Ikeda. [7] [8] He married Noriko Ikeda in May 1969, [4] and took his wife's family name. [14]
Ikeda died of rectum cancer in Tokyo on 28 January 2004 at age 66. [6] [8]
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