Tanaka Giichi, Baron

Tanaka Giichi, Baron

▪ prime minister of Japan
(Danshaku)
born July 25, 1863/64, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan
died Sept. 29, 1929, Tokyo

      prime minister (1927–29) and author of Japan's aggressive policy toward China in the 1920s.

      Tanaka distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese War and as a member of the Japanese army stationed in Manchuria in the early 1900s. Appointed minister of war in 1918, he was one of the most forceful advocates of Japanese involvement in a Siberian expedition against the new Soviet regime in Russia. The civilian leaders of the cabinet finally acquiesced when the United States and other Western countries also sent troops to Russia, but Tanaka, who had dreams of a Japanese empire in Siberia, conspired among his own military associates to send in many times the number of Japanese troops originally agreed upon and to keep them there long after other countries had withdrawn their forces.

      Created a baron in 1920, Tanaka joined the dominant Friends of Constitutional Government (Rikken Seiyūkai) political party and was elected in 1925 to its presidency. As a result he became prime minister in 1927. Although his foreign policy seemed more belligerent than that of his predecessors, Tanaka continued to seek international cooperation, pursuing trade and economic interests in China but remaining adamant about retaining Japanese control in southern Manchuria. In 1927 he intervened against Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition by blocking its progress in Shantung. Tanaka's aggressive tone toward China provoked an anti-Japanese reaction on the Chinese mainland. His efforts to deal with the 1927 economic crisis in Japan led to an inflationary spiral in the country and caused social unrest. When he moved to punish army officers involved in the assassination of the Manchurian leader Chang Tso-lin, the army refused to back him, and his cabinet fell. Tanaka died a short time later.

      The “Tanaka Memorial,” a document in which he supposedly advised the emperor to adopt an expansionist policy in China, has been shown to be a forgery.

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