Tetsu Katayama

Tetsu Katayama
Tetsu Katayama
片山哲
	Official portrait, 1947
Prime Minister of Japan
	In office; 24 May 1947 – 10 March 1948
Monarch	Hirohito
Governor	Douglas MacArthur
Deputy	Hitoshi Ashida
Preceded by	Shigeru Yoshida
Succeeded by	Hitoshi Ashida
Member of the House of Representatives; for Kanagawa 3rd District; Kanagawa At-large District (1946–1947)
	In office; 21 February 1930 – 21 January 1932
	In office; 21 February 1936 – 30 April 1942
	In office; 11 April 1946 – 31 March 1947
	In office; 25 April 1947 – 23 December 1948
	In office; 2 October 1952 – 23 October 1963
Personal details
Born	28 July 1887; Tanabe, Wakayama, Empire of Japan
Died	30 May 1978 (aged 90); Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
Political party	Democratic Socialist (1960–1978)
Other political; affiliations	Right Socialist Party of Japan; Japan Socialist Party (before 1960)
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University
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Tetsu Katayama (片山哲, Katayama Tetsu, 28 July 1887 – 30 May 1978) was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1947 to 1948. A Christian pacifist, he bears the distinction of having been the first socialist to serve as Prime Minister of Japan.^[1] He was a Christian socialist.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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