Fukuda Yasuo

Fukuda Yasuo

▪ prime minister of Japan
born July 16, 1936, Takasaki, Gumma prefecture, Japan
 
 Japanese politician, who was prime minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008.

      Fukuda was born into a well-known political family: his father, Fukuda Takeo, was the Japanese prime minister from 1976 to 1978. After graduating from Tokyo's Waseda University in 1959, Fukuda Yasuo worked at a Japanese petroleum company for 17 years. He made his first foray into politics in 1976 when he served as his father's political secretary, but he returned for a time to the business arena when the elder Fukuda left office. In 1990 Fukuda was elected to the lower house of the Diet (parliament). From 2000 to 2004 he served as chief cabinet secretary to two prime ministers, the longest tenure at the position since World War II.

      Fukuda took over the leadership of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party (Liberal-Democratic Party of Japan) (LDP) and became prime minister in September 2007 when health concerns and party scandals forced Abe Shinzo to resign the prime ministership. Fukuda thus became the first son of a Japanese prime minister to also hold the office. Upon his election Fukuda pledged to implement a dovish foreign policy and to improve Japan's relations with China and North Korea. Fukuda quickly met resistance from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which controlled the upper house of the Diet. Citing what the DPJ viewed as failures of domestic policies—most notably his administration's widely maligned plan that would require those over the age of 75 to pay additional health care costs—the upper house issued Fukuda a nonbinding censure in June 2008. It was the first censure against a prime minister under the country's 1947 constitution. Fukuda's continued frustration with the Diet prompted him on Sept. 1, 2008, to announce his intention of resigning the prime ministership. He was succeeded by Asō Tarō on September 24.

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