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Takeo Fukuda

Takeo Fukuda
福田 赳夫
Official portrait, 1976
Prime Minister of Japan
In office
24 December 1976 – 7 December 1978
MonarchShōwa
Preceded byTakeo Miki
Succeeded byMasayoshi Ōhira
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
In office
23 December 1976 – 1 December 1978
Vice PresidentFunada Naka
Secretary-GeneralMasayoshi Ōhira
Preceded byTakeo Miki
Succeeded byMasayoshi Ōhira
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1 October 1952 – 18 February 1990
Succeeded byYasuo Fukuda
ConstituencyGunma 3rd District
Personal details
Born(1905-01-14)14 January 1905
Takasaki, Gunma, Empire of Japan
Died5 July 1995(1995-07-05) (aged 90)
Tokyo, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
SpouseMie Fukuda
Children5 (inc. Yasuo)
Alma materTokyo Imperial University
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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 from 1976 to 1978.

Born in Gunma Prefecture and educated at Tokyo Imperial University, Fukuda served as an official in the 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.


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