Tanzan Ishibashi

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Tanzan Ishibashi
石橋 湛山
Official portrait, 1956
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 23 December 1956 – 25 February 1957
Monarch	Hirohito
Preceded by	Ichirō Hatoyama
Succeeded by	Nobusuke Kishi
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
In office 14 December 1956 – 21 March 1957
Vice President	Banboku Ōno
Secretary-General	Takeo Miki
Preceded by	Ichirō Hatoyama
Succeeded by	Nobusuke Kishi
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office 23 December 1956 – 31 January 1957
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Funada Naka
Succeeded by	Nobusuke Kishi
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
In office 23 December 1956 – 27 December 1956
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Isamu Murakami
Succeeded by	Taro Hirai
Minister of International Trade and Industry
In office 10 December 1954 – 23 December 1956
Prime Minister	Ichirō Hatoyama
Preceded by	Kiichi Aichi
Succeeded by	Mikio Mizuta
Minister of Finance
In office 22 May 1946 – 24 May 1947
Prime Minister	Shigeru Yoshida
Preceded by	Keizo Shibusawa
Succeeded by	Tetsu Katayama (Acting)
Member of the House of Representatives for Shizuoka 2nd District
In office 1 October 1952 – 29 January 1967
In office 26 April 1947 – 17 May 1947
Personal details
Born	Seizō Sugita (1884-09-25)25 September 1884 Tokyo, Japan
Died	25 April 1973(1973-04-25) (aged 88) Osaka, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party (1955–1973)
Alma mater	Waseda University
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Tanzan Ishibashi (石橋 湛山, Ishibashi Tanzan, 25 September 1884 – 25 April 1973) was a Japanese journalist and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1956 to 1957.

Born in Tokyo, Ishibashi became a journalist after graduating from Waseda University in 1907. In 1911, he joined the Tōyō Keizai Shimpo ("Eastern Economic Journal") and served as its editor-in-chief from 1925 to 1946 and president from 1941. In the 1930s, Ishibashi was one of the few critics of Japanese imperialism, and became well-known as a liberal economist. From 1946 to 1947, Ishibashi served as finance minister under Shigeru Yoshida. He was elected into the National Diet in 1947, but was purged for openly opposing the U.S. occupation policies; he returned to the Diet in 1952, after which he allied with Ichiro Hatoyama and served as his minister of international trade and industry. Ishibashi succeeded Hatoyama as prime minister in 1956, simultaneously serving as director of the Defense Agency, but resigned soon after due to ill health.