Osachi Hamaguchi (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Osachi Hamaguchi (1 April 1870 - 26 August 1931) was a Japanese politician and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan from 2 July 1929 to 14 April 1931. He was called the "Lion prime minister" due to his physical features. Hamaguchi was born in what is now K chi city, K chi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku; his father was an official in the forestry department. He graduated from the Law College of Tokyo Imperial University and began his career as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Finance. In 1907, he became director of the Monopoly Bureau. He became Vice Communications Minister in 1912 and Vice Finance Minister in 1914.Hamaguchi was elected to the lower house in the Japanese Diet in 1915, as a member of the Kenseikai political party.