Hamaguchi Osachi

Prime Minister of Japan

1 April 1870 Kōchi, Japan

26 August 1931(1931-08-26) (61) Tokyo, Japan

10 March 1931 – 14 April 1931

Japanese politician In this Japanese name, the surname is Hamaguchi. Adachi Kenzō, Osachi Hamaguchi, Toshio Shimada, Baron Kato, Kataoka Naoharu, and Ema Koigumi in 1916 Hamaguchi Osachi (Kyūjitai: 濱口 雄幸 ; Shinjitai: 浜口 雄幸 , also Hamaguchi Yūkō, 1 April 1870 – 26 August 1931) was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister and Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931. Nicknamed the "Lion Prime Minister" (ライオン宰相 , Raion Saishō) due to his dignified demeanor and mane-like hair, Hamaguchi served as leading member of the liberal Rikken Minseitō (Constitutional Democratic Party) during the "Taishō democracy" of interwar Japan; he seemed to have survived an assassination attempt by a right-wing fanatic in 1930, but died about nine months later from a bacterial infection in his unhealed wounds.