Mitsumasa Yonai

Mitsumasa Yonai (米内 光政code: ja is deprecated , Yonai Mitsumasa, 2 March 1880 – 20 April 1948) was a Japanese navy officer and politician. He was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was the Prime Minister of Japan in 1940.

Junior Second Rank Mitsumasa Yonai
米内 光政
File:Mitsumasa yonai.jpg
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 16 January 1940 – 22 July 1940
Monarch	Hirohito
Preceded by	Nobuyuki Abe
Succeeded by	Fumimaro Konoe
Minister of the Navy
In office 2 February 1937 – 30 August 1939
Prime Minister	Senjūrō Hayashi Fumimaro Konoe Hiranuma Kiichirō
Preceded by	Osami Nagano
Succeeded by	Yoshida Zengo
In office 22 July 1944 – 1 December 1945
Prime Minister	Kuniaki Koiso Kantarō Suzuki Naruhiko Higashikuni Kijūrō Shidehara
Preceded by	Naokuni Nomura
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	(1880-03-02)2 March 1880 Mitsuwari, Iwate, Japan
Died	20 April 1948(1948-04-20) (aged 68)
Resting place	Morioka Japan
Political party	Independent
Spouse(s)	Koma Yonai ​ ​ (m. 1906; died 1941)​
Signature	Mitsumasa Yonai's signature
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Japan Navy
Years of service	1901–1945
Rank	File:Imperial Japan-Navy-OF-9-collar.svg Admiral
Commands	Kasuga, Iwate, Fusō, Mutsu, First Expeditionary Fleet, IJN 3rd Fleet, Combined Fleet, IJN 1st Fleet

Yonai suffered from high blood pressure most of his life, but died of pneumonia on 20 April 1948 at the age of 68.

Mitsumasa Yonai Media

• Mitsumasa Yonai and Isoroku Yamamoto.jpg

  Yonai and Isoroku Yamamoto, 1936

• Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai portrait c1937.jpg

  Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, portrait photograph, circa 1937.

• First Konoe Cabinet.jpg

  Yonai as Naval Minister with Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe (First Konoe Cabinet), 1937

• Yonai, Itagaki and Hiranuma at a Budjet Committee session cropped.jpg

  Yonai talking with Minister of War Seishirō Itagaki of Hiranuma Cabinet (Prime Minister Hiranuma Kiichirō), Budget Session of the House of Representatives in 1939

• Mitsumasa Yonai smiling.jpg

  Yonai after Imperial Investiture, January 1940

• Yonai reading a memo at the House cainber during the assembry cropped.jpg

  Yonai reading a memo during the lower house plenary session in February 1940.

• Yonai comforting kids 29 March 1940.jpg

  Yonai invites and encourages his hometown, Iwate Prefecture's children who lost their fathers in the Second Sino-Japanese War, Prime Minister's Official Residence in March 1940

• JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 5Class BAR.svg
• JPN Kinshi-kunsho 5Class BAR.svg

Other websites

• Annotated bibliography for Mitsumasa Yonai from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues