Eisaku Sato – Biography
Eisaku Sato
was born on March 27, 1901 in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
In 1921, completing the course of senior high school, he entered Tokyo Imperial
University (now Tokyo University) and majored in German jurisprudence.
In 1923, he passed the senior civil service examinations, and in the following
year, upon graduating from the University, he joined the Ministry of Railways.
In the Ministry, he held various important posts, such as Director of the Osaka
Railways Bureau from 1944 to 1946 and Vice-Minister for Transportation from 1947
to 1948.
He married Hiroko Sato on February 23, 1926 and has two
sons, Ryutaro and Shinji.
His hobbies include golf, fishing, and
performing the traditional Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu) with his wife.
His first contact with the political world was on his appointment to the
post of Chief Cabinet Secretary of the second Yoshida Cabinet in 1948.
In 1949, he was elected to the House of Representatives and since then he has
held the following Government and Party posts:
| Feb. 1949-April 1950 | Chairman
of the Policy Affairs Research Council of the Liberal Party |
| April
1950-May 1951 Jan. 1953-July 1954 | Secretary General
of the Liberal Party |
| July
1951 - July 1952 | Minister of Postal Services and Telecommunications |
| Oct. 1952-Feb. 1953 | Minister
of Construction and concurrently Minister of State in charge of Hokkaido Development |
| Dec.1957-June 1958 | Chairman
of the Executive Council of the Liberal Democratic Party |
| June
1958-July 1960 | Minister of Finance |
| July
1961-July 1962 | Minister of International Trade and
Industry |
| July 1963-June
1964 | Minister of State in charge of Hokkaido Development
and concurrently Minister of State in charge of Science and Technology; Minister
of State in charge of the 18th Olympic Games |
| Dec.1964-June
1972 | President of the Liberal Democratic Party and
Prime Minister. |
Eisaku Sato died in Tokyo
on June 3, 1975.
Selected
Bibliography
By Sato
In Quest
of Peace and Freedom. Tokyo: Japan Times, 1973 (Speeches collected and translated
to support his candidacy for the prize).
Other Sources
Nakamura, Koji. "Sato: A Prize Choice for the Sniggers". Far Eastern
Economic Review 86 (1 November 1974): 14. (A highly critical view.)
Obituary. New York Times (3 June 1975) 1:36.
Reischauer,
Edwin O. advisory ed. Japan. The Great Contemporary Issues series. New
York: Arno Press, 1974. (Articles from the New York Times. See especially
pp. 358-62 and passim.)
"Sato, Eisaku". In CB, 1965.
From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1971-1980,
Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Irwin Abrams, World Scientific Publishing
Co., Singapore, 1997
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autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published
in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures. The information
is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate. To cite this
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