Jōji Hayashi

Jōji Hayashi
林 譲治
Hayashi in 1932
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 13 March 1951 – 1 August 1952
Monarch	Hirohito
Deputy	Nobuyuki Iwamoto
Preceded by	Kijūrō Shidehara
Succeeded by	Banboku Ōno
Deputy Prime Minister of Japan
In office 19 October 1948 – 13 March 1951
Prime Minister	Shigeru Yoshida
Preceded by	Suehiro Nishio
Succeeded by	Taketora Ogata (1952)
Ministerial offices Minister of Health and Welfare In office 19 October 1948 – 28 June 1950 Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida Preceded by Giichi Takeda Succeeded by Takeo Kurokawa Chief Cabinet Secretary In office 29 May 1946 – 24 May 1947 Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida Preceded by Wataru Narahashi Succeeded by Suehiro Nishio
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 10 April 1946 – 5 April 1960
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Tadao Kariya
Constituency	Kōchi at-large
In office 20 February 1930 – 29 April 1942
Preceded by	Shirō Sakamoto
Succeeded by	Giichi Ono
Constituency	Kōchi 2nd
Personal details
Born	(1889-03-24)24 March 1889 Sukumo, Kōchi, Japan
Died	5 April 1960(1960-04-05) (aged 71)
Party	Liberal Democratic (after 1955)
Other political affiliations	Rikken Seiyūkai (1930–1940) Independent (1940–1945) JLP (1945–1948) DLP (1948–1950) LP (1950–1955)
Parent	Hayashi Yūzō (father)
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University

Jōji Hayashi (林 譲治, Hayashi Jōji; 24 March 1889 – 5 April 1960) was a Japanese politician who served as the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1951 to 1952, and Deputy Prime Minister of Japan from 1948 to 1951 during Shigeru Yoshida's premiership. Prior to this he served as the Minister of Health and Welfare from 1948 to 1950, and Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1946 to 1947.

Early life and education

Hayashi was born in Sukumo, Kōchi on 24 March 1889, as the second son of Hayashi Yūzō, a politician of the Meiji and Taishō periods who was also active in the Freedom and People's Rights Movement.

In 1918, he graduated from the Graduate School of Law and Faculty of Law, Kyoto University.

Political career

In 1923, Hayashi became the mayor of Sukumo, and was later elected as a member of the Kōchi Prefectural Assembly in 1927.

In the 1930 election, he was elected to the House of Representatives as a member of the Rikken Seiyūkai. In 1931, he became secretary to future prime minister Ichirō Hatoyama, who at the time was the Minister of Education in the Inukai cabinet. During the 1939 split of the Rikken Seiyūkai, he belonged to the orthodox faction along with Hatoyama, and after the dissolution of the party the following year, he became critical of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.

After the war, he became Chief Cabinet Secretary in the First Yoshida cabinet in 1946. He was later appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Welfare in the Second and Third Yoshida cabinets. In 1951, he became Speaker of the House of Representatives, and served in that position until the following year.

Hayashi died on 5 April 1960 at the age of 71, due to complications from cancer. At the time of his death he was still in office as a Diet member.