Hachirō Arita
Hachirō Arita | |
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有田 八郎 | |
Arita in 1936 | |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 16 January 1940 – 22 July 1940 | |
| Prime Minister | Mitsumasa Yonai |
| Preceded by | Kichisaburō Nomura |
| Succeeded by | Yōsuke Matsuoka |
| In office 29 October 1938 – 30 August 1939 | |
| Prime Minister | Fumimaro Konoe Kiichirō Hiranuma |
| Preceded by | Kazushige Ugaki |
| Succeeded by | Nobuyuki Abe |
| In office 2 April 1936 – 2 February 1937 | |
| Prime Minister | Kōki Hirota |
| Preceded by | Kōki Hirota |
| Succeeded by | Senjūrō Hayashi |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 13 April 1953 – 27 February 1955 | |
| Constituency | Niigata 1st |
| Member of the House of Peers | |
| In office 10 February 1938 – 16 February 1946 Nominated by the Emperor | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 September 1884 Sado, Niigata, Japan |
| Died | 4 March 1965 (aged 80) Tokyo, Japan |
| Political party | Socialist (1955–1965) |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
Hachirō Arita (有田 八郎, Arita Hachirō; 21 September 1884 – 4 March 1965) was a Japanese politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs for three terms. He coined the term Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which provided an official agenda for Imperial Japan's expansionism.
After the war, Arita was active as a leftist politician. The circumstances surrounding his second marriage and his unsuccessful 1959 run for Governor of Tokyo served as the model for the novel After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima. This led to a famous court case in which Arita successfully sued for invasion of privacy.