What is Shigeru Yoshida?
[[File:Shigeru Yoshida suit.jpg|thumb|right|200px|{{Center|Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida}}]] '''Shigeru Yoshida''' (22 September 1878 – 20 October 1967) was a [[Japan]]ese [[diplomat]] and politician.<ref name=BYD>{{cite web |url=http://biography.yourdictionary.com/shigeru-yoshida |title=Shigeru Yoshida Facts |publisher=LoveToKnow, Corp. |access-date=26 October 2015}}</ref> He served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954.<ref name=BYD/> He was the [[Ambassador]] to [[England]] in 1936.<ref name=WGBH>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/peopleevents/pandeAMEX110.html |title=People & Events Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru (1878-1967) |publisher=WGBH/PBS |access-date=26 October 2015}}</ref> By 1939 he had fallen out of favor with the [[government]]. He was against the [[military]] [[wikt:expansion|expansion]] Japan was engaged in at the time. All he felt he could do was [[retirement|retire]].<ref name=WGBH/> He was later imprisoned for these same views. When [[General officer|General]] [[Douglas MacArthur]] became the military [[governor]] of Japan, Yoshida was called to [[Tokyo]] to become the new [[foreign minister]].<ref name=WGBH/> == References == {{commons}} {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshida, Shigeru}} [[Category:Prime Ministers of Japan]] [[Category:1878 births]] [[Category:1967 deaths]] [[Category:Politicians from Kanagawa Prefecture]] [[Category:University of Tokyo alumni]] [[Category:Japanese diplomats]] [[Category:Foreign ministers of Japan]] [[Category:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians]] {{Multistub|bio|politics}}