Takeo Fukuda | |
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福田 赳夫 | |
Prime Minister of Japan | |
In office 24 December 1976 – 7 December 1978 | |
Monarch | Shōwa |
Preceded by | Takeo Miki |
Succeeded by | Masayoshi Ōhira |
President of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
In office 23 December 1976 – 1 December 1978 | |
Vice President | Funada Naka |
Secretary-General | Masayoshi Ōhira |
Preceded by | Takeo Miki |
Succeeded by | Masayoshi Ōhira |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
In office 1 October 1952 – 18 February 1990 | |
Succeeded by | Yasuo Fukuda |
Constituency | Gunma 3rd District |
Personal details | |
Born | Takasaki, Gunma, Empire of Japan | 14 January 1905
Died | 5 July 1995 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 90)
Political party | Liberal Democratic |
Spouse | Mie Fukuda |
Children | 5 (inc. Yasuo) |
Alma mater | Tokyo 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.