Sōsuke Uno

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Sōsuke Uno was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who briefly served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1989 before resigning amid a financial and sex scandal.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese politician
Prime Minister of Japan
human
causeOfDeath pneumonia
conflictParticipatedIn World War II
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1922-08-27
dateOfDeath 1998-05-19
endTime 1989-08-10 (as Prime Minister of Japan)
era Heisei period NERFINISHED
Shōwa period NERFINISHED
familyName Uno NERFINISHED
givenName Sōsuke NERFINISHED
honorificPrefix Mr.
languageSpoken Japanese
memberOfPoliticalParty Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) NERFINISHED
militaryService Imperial Japanese Navy NERFINISHED
name Sōsuke Uno NERFINISHED
nativeName 宇野宗佑 NERFINISHED
notableEvent led LDP government during 1989 House of Councillors election defeat
notableFor brief tenure as Prime Minister of Japan in 1989
resignation following financial and sex scandal
occupation bureaucrat
politician
orderInOffice 75th Prime Minister of Japan
parliamentaryHouse House of Representatives of Japan NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan NERFINISHED
politicalAlignment conservative
positionHeld Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency NERFINISHED
Member of the House of Representatives of Japan
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan NERFINISHED
Prime Minister of Japan NERFINISHED
precededBy Noboru Takeshita NERFINISHED
reasonForEndOfTerm resignation amid financial scandal
resignation amid sex scandal
religion Buddhism (commonly associated, not definitively documented)
residence Shiga Prefecture, Japan NERFINISHED
resignedFromPosition Prime Minister of Japan NERFINISHED
scandalInvolved financial scandal involving political funds
sex scandal involving a geisha’s allegations
spouse Uno’s wife (name not widely publicized internationally)
startTime 1989-06-03 (as Prime Minister of Japan)
succeededBy Toshiki Kaifu NERFINISHED
termLengthAsPrimeMinister approximately two months

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