Mitsumasa Yonai

Junior Second Rank

Mitsumasa Yonai
Junior Second Rank; Mitsumasa Yonai
米内光政
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	2 March 1880; Mitsuwari, Iwate, Japan
Died	20 April 1948 (aged 68)
Resting place	Morioka Japan
Political party	Independent
Spouse(s)	Koma Yonai (m. 1906; died 1941)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Japan Navy
Years of service	1901–1945
Rank	Admiral
Commands	Kasuga, Iwate, Fusō, Mutsu, First Expeditionary Fleet, IJN 3rd Fleet, Combined Fleet, IJN 1st Fleet

Mitsumasa Yonai (米内光政, 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.^[1]^[2]

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

References

↑ Oide, Hisashi; 生出寿 (1989). "Fusen kaishō" Yonai Mitsumasa. Tokuma Shoten. p. 230. ISBN 4-19-813966-0. OCLC 21669658.
↑ "米内光政- 盛岡市先人記念館". Morioka Memorial Museum of Great Predecessors. Retrieved 2022-03-04.

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