Eisaku Satō
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He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and for representing the Japanese people's will for peace.[1][2] From 1964 until 1972, Eisaku Satō held the position of prime minister of Japan, and his tenure was the third-longest and the longest uninterrupted among Japanese prime ministers.[3] The return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972 is the achievement for which Satō is most widely known.[3]
Key facts and history
Satō was born on 27 March 1901 in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the third son of businessman Hidesuke Satō.[4] Satō served as minister of finance in the cabinet of his brother Nobusuke Kishi from 1958 to 1960.[5] As prime minister, Satō participated in creating the Asian Development Bank in 1966 and held the first postwar international conference sponsored by Japan.[6][7] In 1969, Satō struck a deal with U.S. president Richard Nixon to repatriate Okinawa, which was formally returned on 15 May 1972.[8]
Satō shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Seán MacBride in 1974, becoming the first Asian to accept the prize.[2] After finishing his studies, Satō entered the Ministry of Railways as a civil servant; later, from 1944 to 1946, he was the Director of the Osaka Railways Bureau.[9][10] Between 1947 and 1948, Satō held the position of Vice-Minister for Transport.[9][10]
What the research sources say
The same source describes the ministerial conference as an experiment born in a transition period between 1950s and 1970s development thinking.[7] According to the Nobel Prize account, Satō received the Peace Prize because he signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970 and represented the Japanese people's wish for peace.[1] Hoshiro's analysis points out that during a period of very high economic growth, Japan took part in establishing the Asian Development Bank and also held a ministerial conference on Southeast Asian development.[7] A 2019 article states that early in his premiership, Satō believed Japan required its own nuclear arsenal to counter China's, but the Johnson administration pushed for Japan to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty instead.[11]
References
- "Eisaku Sato", Nobel Prize. facts only, no text reused. nobelprize.org
- Wikipedia, "Eisaku Satō" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Eisaku Sato", Nobel Prize (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Eisaku Satō" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Edström, "Japan's Evolving Foreign Policy Doctrine", 2025, p. 71–86; "Japan 1968: A Reflection Point During the Era of the Economic Miracle" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Eisaku Satō" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Yamada, "Seiden Satō Eisaku", Shinchōsha, 1988, p. 23 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Eisaku Satō" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Weiner, "C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50's and 60's", The New York Times, 1994-10-09 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Eisaku Satō" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hoshiro, "Postwar Japanese and Southeast Asian History – A New Viewpoint", Research and Information Center for Asian Studies, 7 May 2007 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Hoshiro, "Postwar Japanese and Southeast Asian History – A New Viewpoint", Research and Information Center for Asian Studies, 7 May 2007. facts only, no text reused. ricas.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Wikipedia, "Eisaku Satō" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ambrose. The Rise to Globalism. Page 235 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Eisaku Satō" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Nobel Peace Prize 1974", Nobel Prize (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "The Nobel Peace Prize 1974", Nobel Prize. facts only, no text reused. nobelprize.org
- "Imagine This: Japan Builds Nuclear Weapons", 25 May 2019. facts only, no text reused. nationalinterest.org
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