Hayato Ikeda

Hayato Ikeda
池田 勇人
Ikeda in 1961
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 19 July 1960 – 9 November 1964
Monarch	Hirohito
Preceded by	Nobusuke Kishi
Succeeded by	Eisaku Satō
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
In office 14 July 1960 – 1 December 1964
Vice President	Banboku Ōno Shojiro Kawashima
Secretary-General	Shūji Masutani Shigesaburō Maeo
Preceded by	Nobusuke Kishi
Succeeded by	Eisaku Satō
Minister of Finance
In office 23 December 1956 – 10 July 1957
Prime Minister	Tanzan Ishibashi
Preceded by	Hisato Ichimada
Succeeded by	Hisato Ichimada
In office 16 February 1949 – 30 October 1952
Prime Minister	Shigeru Yoshida
Preceded by	Shinzō Ōya (acting)
Succeeded by	Tadaharu Mukai
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 23 January 1949 – 13 August 1965
Constituency	Hiroshima
Personal details
Born	(1899-12-03)3 December 1899 Takehara, Empire of Japan
Died	13 August 1965(1965-08-13) (aged 65) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Other political affiliations	Democratic Liberal Party (1948–1950) Liberal Party (1950–1955)
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University
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Hayato Ikeda (池田 勇人, Ikeda Hayato, 3 December 1899 – 13 August 1965) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964. He is best known for his Income Doubling Plan, which promised to double the size of Japan's economy in 10 years, and for presiding over the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Ikeda studied law at Kyoto Imperial University and entered the Ministry of Finance in 1925, working there for the next two decades. After the war, he was first elected to the National Diet in 1947 and served as finance minister from 1949 to 1952 under Shigeru Yoshida, being responsible implementing an economic stabilization program. Ikeda briefly headed the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1952, but resigned after a no-confidence motion. He returned as finance minister under Tanzan Ishibashi from 1956 to 1957, and as international trade and industry minister from 1959 to 1960.

Ikeda succeeded Nobusuke Kishi as president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime minister in 1960, following Kishi's resignation amid the massive Anpo protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty. Seeking to redirect the nation's energies away from social conflict and in the direction of economic growth, Ikeda announced his Income Doubling Plan and helped Japan to double its GDP in a period of just seven years. During his tenure, Ikeda worked to repair the rift in U.S.–Japan relations and to ease the domestic political divisions which had been exacerbated by the recent protests, played an important role in settling the Miike Struggle, and oversaw the successful 1964 Olympic Games before resigning due to ill health.