Osachi Hamaguchi
Japanese politician
Died when: 61 years 147 days (736 months)Star Sign: Aries
Hamaguchi Osachi (Kyujitai: ?? ??; Shinjitai: ?? ??, also Hamaguchi Yuko, 1 April 1870 – 26 August 1931) was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister and Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931.
Nicknamed the "Lion Prime Minister" (??????, Raion Saisho) due to his dignified demeanor and mane-like hair, Hamaguchi served as leading member of the liberal Rikken Minseito (Constitutional Democratic Party) during the "Taisho democracy" of interwar Japan; he initially survived an assassination attempt by a right-wing extremist in 1930, but died about nine months later from a bacterial infection in his unhealed wounds.
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