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Sato negotiated with U.S. president Richard M. Nixon for the repatriation of Okinawa.

Eisaku Satō (佐藤榮作; Satō Eisaku March 27, 1901–June 3, 1975) was a Japanese politician and the 61st, 62nd and 63rd Prime Minister of Japan, elected on November 9, 1964, and re-elected on February 17, 1967 and January 14, 1970, serving until July 7, 1972.


He was born in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and studied law at Tokyo Imperial University, becoming a civil servant in the Ministry of Railways. In 1948, he was named vice-minister for transportation.


He entered the Diet in 1949 as a member of the Liberal Party, and gradually rose through the ranks of Japanese politics, becoming Chief Cabinet Secretary to Yoshida Shigeru, and in 1952, minister of construction. After the Liberal Party merged with the Democratic Party to form the Liberal Democratic Party, Satō became Minister of Finance in the governments of Kishi Nobusuke (his brother) and Hayato Ikeda.


Satō succeeded Ikeda after the latter resigned due to ill health. His government was one of the longest-lived in Japanese history, and by the late 1960's he appeared to have single-handed control over the entire Japanese government. He was a popular prime minister due to the growing economy; his foreign policy, which was a balancing act between the interests of the United States and China, was more tenuous. In 1969, Satō struck a deal with U.S. president Richard Nixon to repatriate Okinawa and remove its nuclear weaponry: this deal was controversial because it allowed the U.S. forces in Japan to maintain bases in Okinawa after repatriation.


After three terms as prime minister, Satō decided not to run for a fourth. His heir apparent, Fukuda Takeo, won the Satō faction's support in the subsequent Diet elections, but the more popular MITI minister, Kakuei Tanaka, won the vote, ending the Satō faction's dominance.


Satō shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Sen MacBride in 1974, in recognition of Japan's entry into the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. He died in Tokyo the following year.


He married Hiroko in 1926 and had two children, Ryutaro and Shinji.


External links

  • Nobel Committee information on 1974 Peace Prize (http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1974/index.html)
Preceded by:
Hayato Ikeda		 Prime Minister of Japan
1964–1972		 Succeeded by:
Kakuei Tanaka

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Sato, Eisaku. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (0 words)
He negotiated an agreement (1965) that called for the normalization of South Korean–Japanese relations, and in 1969 he signed a treaty with the United States that led to the reestablishment (1972) of Japanese sovereignty in Okinawa.
However, Sato did not anticipate the public outcry against a provision in the Okinawa agreement that allowed U.S. forces to remain on the island, and he was forced to resign in 1972 shortly after the treaty took effect.
Sato was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1974.
Eisaku Sato Summary (1729 words)
Sato therefore grew up in an atmosphere highly charged with political concerns; his mother was reported to have impressed upon her sons a sense of obligation to serve the state.
Sato's association with Yoshida lasted for several years, and he was intensely loyal to the old man. Yoshida suffered public criticism in the spring of 1954, when he rescued Sato from legal charges growing out of a scandal that involved shipping interests and many top leaders of Yoshida's Liberal party.
Eisaku Sato (佐藤榮作; Satō Eisaku March 27,1901 – June 3,1975) was a Japanese politician and the 61st, 62nd and 63rd Prime Minister of Japan, elected on November 9, 1964, and re-elected on February 17, 1967 and January 14, 1970, serving until July 7, 1972.
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