Aikawa Katsuroku

Aikawa Katsuroku
相川 勝六
Aikawa in 1960
Minister of Health and Welfare
In office 10 February 1945 – 7 April 1945
Prime Minister	Kuniaki Koiso
Preceded by	Hisatada Hirose
Succeeded by	Tadahiko Okada
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 1 October 1952 – 13 November 1972
Preceded by	Jūen Satō
Succeeded by	Ryōichi Oriono
Constituency	Miyazaki 1st
Gubernatorial offices Governor of Ehime Prefecture In office 1 July 1943 – 18 April 1944 Monarch Hirohito Preceded by Ryūichi Fukumoto Succeeded by Chiyoji Yukisawa Governor of Aichi Prefecture In office 26 March 1941 – 9 June 1942 Monarch Hirohito Preceded by Kodama Kyūichi Succeeded by Chiyoji Yukisawa Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture In office 5 September 1939 – 26 March 1941 Monarch Hirohito Preceded by Ichisho Inuma Succeeded by Tokiji Yoshinaga Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture In office 7 July 1937 – 4 September 1939 Monarch Hirohito Preceded by Seiya Mishima Succeeded by Tōru Hasegawa
Personal details
Born	(1891-12-06)6 December 1891 Ureshino, Saga, Japan
Died	3 October 1973(1973-10-03) (aged 81)
Party	Liberal Democratic
Other political affiliations	Liberal (1952–1955)
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University

Aikawa Katsuroku (Japanese: 相川 勝六) (1891–1973) was a Japanese Home Ministry government official and politician. He was born in Saga Prefecture. He graduated from the University of Tokyo. He was Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (1937–1939), Hiroshima (1939–1941), Aichi Prefecture (1941–1942) and Ehime Prefecture (1943–1944). He was minister of health and welfare in the Government of Japan (1945).