Shigeru Yoshida

Serving five terms as Prime Minister during the turbulent post-war era, Shigeru Yoshida laid the foundation for modern Japan's foreign policy and security. He negotiated the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty and the original U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, restoring national sovereignty. His seminal "Yoshida Doctrine" prioritized economic recovery over rearmament, establishing a lasting blueprint for post-war growth, strong U.S. alliance, and political stability through his influential "Yoshida School" disciples.

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1878	Birth into the Takeuchi family and adoption into the Yoshida family (Period: Around 1878–1881, Location: Tokyo, Yokohama) Birth of Shigeru Yoshida (Period: September 22, 1878, Location: Tokyo (present-day Tokyo))
1890	Enrolling in and graduating from Tokyo Imperial University (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 11 years old, Period: 1890s–1906, Location: Tokyo)
1904	Russo-Japanese War (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1904–1905, Location: Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, etc.)
1906	Joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and service in China (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1906–1920s, Location: Mukden, Antung, Tsinan, Tientsin, etc.)
1909	Marriage (Shigeru Yoshida, Yukiko Makino, Age: 30 years old, Period: March 10, 1909 (Date of family registration), Location: Uncertain)
1914	World War I (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1914–1918 (Childhood), Location: Around Brest-Litovsk, Eastern Europe)
1918	Participation in the Paris Peace Conference (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1918–1919, Location: Paris, France)
1925	Appointment as Consul-General in Mukden (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 46 years old, Period: 1925, Location: Mukden, China (present-day Shenyang))
1928	Appointment as Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 49 years old, Period: 1928–1930, Location: Tokyo)
1930	Appointment as Ambassador to Italy (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 51 years old, Period: Early 1930s, Location: Rome, Italy)
1936	Appointment as Ambassador to the United Kingdom (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1936–1938, Location: London, United Kingdom)
1937	Second Sino-Japanese War (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1937–1945, Location: Various regions in China)
1939	World War II (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Iran) Diplomatic policy conflict over the Tripartite Pact (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1939–1940, Location: Japan, Europe) Retirement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1939, Location: Tokyo)
1941	Peace efforts toward ending the war (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: Tokyo, Oiso, etc.)
1944	Marriage (Shigeru Yoshida, Kiyo Sakamoto, Age: 65 years old, Period: 1944, Location: Uncertain)
1945	Peace efforts with Fumimaro Konoe and subsequent arrest (Age: 66 years old, Period: April–May 1945, Location: Tokyo, Oiso, etc.) Appointments as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Higashikuni and Shidehara Cabinets (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 66 years old, Period: September 1945–May 1946, Location: Tokyo)
1946	Public office purge and Ichiro Hatoyama's abandonment of party presidency (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 67 years old, Period: 1946, Location: Tokyo) Formation of the First Yoshida Cabinet (Age: 67 years old, Period: May 22, 1946–May 24, 1947, Location: Tokyo) Promulgation and enforcement of the Constitution of Japan (Age: 68 years old, Period: November 3, 1946–May 3, 1947, Location: Nationwide Japan, Tokyo)
1948	Formation of the Second Yoshida Cabinet (Age: 70 years old, Period: October 15, 1948–February 16, 1949, Location: Tokyo)
1949	Formation of the Third Yoshida Cabinet and economic stabilization policies (Age: 70 years old, Period: February 16, 1949–October 30, 1952, Location: Tokyo)
1950	Korean War (Age: 71 years old, Period: 1950–1953, Location: Korean Peninsula) Establishment of the National Police Reserve (Age: 71 years old, Period: August 10, 1950, Location: Nationwide Japan)
1951	Signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty (Age: 72 years old, Period: September 8, 1951, Location: San Francisco, United States)
1952	Formation of the Fourth Yoshida Cabinet (Age: 74 years old, Period: October 30, 1952–May 21, 1953, Location: Tokyo)
1953	Bakayaro Dissolution (Age: 74 years old, Period: March 14, 1953, Location: Tokyo, National Diet Building) Formation of the Fifth Yoshida Cabinet (Age: 74 years old, Period: May 21, 1953–December 10, 1954, Location: Tokyo)
1954	Shipbuilding scandal and the exercise of prosecutorial directive (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 75 years old, Period: 1954, Location: Tokyo, etc.) Retirement from politics and influence on successor politicians (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 75 years old, Period: 1954–1960s, Location: Tokyo, Oiso, etc.) Resignation of the Yoshida Cabinet and moves toward the conservative merger (Age: 76 years old, Period: December 1954, Location: Tokyo)
1967	Death of Shigeru Yoshida (Age: 89 years old, Period: October 20, 1967, Location: Oiso Town, Kanagawa Prefecture) Passing and state funeral (Shigeru Yoshida, Age: 89 years old, Period: October 20–31, 1967, Location: Oiso Town, Kanagawa Prefecture; Nippon Budokan, Chiyoda City, Tokyo)

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Group	List
Founding of the PRC	Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Liu Shaoqi Zhu De Chen Yun Jiang Qing Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying Wang Hongwen Zhang Chunqiao
Nation-building in Taiwan	Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo Chen Cheng Yen Chia-kan Lee Teng-hui Sun Li-jen Koo Chen-fu James Soong (Soong Chu-yu) Kang Ning-hsiang Shih Ming-teh
State-building in South Korea	Syngman Rhee Park Chung-hee Chun Doo-hwan Roh Tae-woo Kim Young-sam Kim Dae-jung Chang Myon Kim Jong-pil Lee Byung-chul Chung Ju-yung Kim Jae-gyu
Post-war Reconstruction of Japan	Shigeru Yoshida Ichiro Hatoyama Nobusuke Kishi Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Sato Kakuei Tanaka Takeo Fukuda Masayoshi Ohira Yasuhiro Nakasone Takeo Miki

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