Takeo Fukuda

Takeo Fukuda
Takeo Fukuda
福田赳夫
	Official portrait, 1976
Prime Minister of Japan
	In office; 24 December 1976 – 7 December 1978
Monarch	Hirohito
Preceded by	Takeo Miki
Succeeded by	Masayoshi Ōhira
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
	In office; 23 December 1976 – 1 December 1978
Vice President	Funada Naka
Secretary-General	Masayoshi Ōhira
Preceded by	Takeo Miki
Succeeded by	Masayoshi Ōhira
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Deputy Prime Minister of Japan
	In office; 9 December 1974 – 6 November 1976
Prime Minister	Takeo Miki
Preceded by	Vacant
Succeeded by	Vacant
Director-General of the Economic Planning Agency
	In office; 9 December 1974 – 6 November 1976
Prime Minister	Takeo Miki
Preceded by	Tadashi Kuranari
Succeeded by	Uichi Noda
Minister of Finance
	In office; 25 November 1973 – 16 July 1974
Prime Minister	Kakuei Tanaka
Preceded by	Kiichi Aichi
Succeeded by	Masayoshi Ōhira
	In office; 30 November 1968 – 5 July 1971
Prime Minister	Eisaku Satō
Preceded by	Mikio Mizuta
Succeeded by	Mikio Mizuta
	In office; 3 June 1965 – 3 December 1966
Prime Minister	Eisaku Satō
Preceded by	Kakuei Tanaka
Succeeded by	Mikio Mizuta
Director-General of the Administrative Management Agency
	In office; 22 December 1972 – 25 November 1973
Prime Minister	Kakuei Tanaka
Preceded by	Seigo Hamano
Succeeded by	Shigeru Hori
Minister for Foreign Affairs
	In office; 5 July 1971 – 7 July 1972
Prime Minister	Eisaku Satō
Preceded by	Kiichi Aichi
Succeeded by	Masayoshi Ōhira
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
	In office; 18 June 1959 – 19 July 1960
Prime Minister	Nobusuke Kishi
Preceded by	Kunio Miura
Succeeded by	Tokuo Nanjō
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 1 October 1952 – 18 February 1990
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Yasuo Fukuda
Constituency	Gunma 3rd
Personal details
Born	14 January 1905; Takasaki, Gunma, Empire of Japan
Died	5 July 1995 (aged 90); Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic
Other political; affiliations	Liberal
Spouse	Mie Fukuda (m. 1933)
Children	5 (incl. Yasuo)
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University
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Takeo Fukuda (福田赳夫, Fukuda Takeo, 14 January 1905 – 5 July 1995) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978.

Born in Gunma Prefecture and educated at Tokyo Imperial University, Fukuda served as an official in the Ministry of Finance for two decades before entering politics. He was first elected to the Diet in 1952, and served as agriculture, forestry, and fisheries minister in 1959–1960 under Nobusuke Kishi, as head of the party's political affairs section under Hayato Ikeda, and as finance minister (1965–1966, 1968–1971) and foreign minister (1971–1972) under Eisaku Satō, becoming his protégé. Fukuda's political life was marked by a rivalry with Kakuei Tanaka, who succeeded Satō as prime minister in 1972 and under whom Fukuda served as finance minister from 1973 to 1974. As prime minister from 1976, Fukuda formulated the Fukuda Doctrine, which pledged trust and cooperation with Asian countries, and concluded the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China in 1978. He was succeeded as premier in 1978 by Masayoshi Ōhira.

His son, Yasuo Fukuda, followed him as a politician and served as prime minister from 2007 to 2008.