Hachirō Arita
Japanese diplomat and politician (1884–1965) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hachirō Arita (有田 八郎, Arita Hachirō, 21 September 1884 – 4 March 1965) was a Japanese politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs for three terms. He coined the term Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which provided an official agenda for Imperial Japan's expansionism.
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Hachirō Arita | |
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有田 八郎 | |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 16 January 1940 – 22 July 1940 | |
Prime Minister | Mitsumasa Yonai |
Preceded by | Kichisaburō Nomura |
Succeeded by | Yōsuke Matsuoka |
In office 29 October 1938 – 30 August 1939 | |
Prime Minister | Fumimaro Konoe Kiichirō Hiranuma |
Preceded by | Kazushige Ugaki |
Succeeded by | Nobuyuki Abe |
In office March 1936 – February 1937 | |
Prime Minister | Kōki Hirota |
Preceded by | Kōki Hirota |
Succeeded by | Senjūrō Hayashi |
Personal details | |
Born | (1884-09-21)September 21, 1884 Sado, Niigata, Empire of Japan |
Died | March 4, 1965(1965-03-04) (aged 80) Tokyo, Japan |
Political party | Japan Socialist Party (1955-1965) |
Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
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After the war, Arita was active as a leftist politician. The circumstances surrounding his second marriage and his unsuccessful 1959 run for Governor of Tokyo served as the model for the novel After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima. This led to a famous court case in which Arita successfully sued for invasion of privacy.