He was born on September 20, 1940, in Fukuoka Prefecture Iizuka City. The family was very wealthy. His great-grandfather Aso Taiji made a fortune operating a coal mine in the Meiji era, and then became a member of the House of Peers when Japan implemented a parliamentary system. His grandfather had the same name as him, and when he died, he paid the highest inheritance tax in Japan! His father, Aso Taigakichi, inherited the ancestral business and used tens of thousands of Korean laborers to create a lot of profits for himself during World War II. Not only that, Taro Aso’s relatives are also big shots. His grandfather is Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru , and his sister is the wife of Emperor Taisho’s son Prince Mikasa Hirohito. In addition, the Hatoyama family, Hashimoto family, Ikeda family and Abe family are more or less related to Taro Aso.
Of course, this is not an isolated case. Most Japanese politicians inherit their father's legacy and marry each other.
(Taro Aso)
Taro Aso has never been outside since he was a child. When he went to school, his family set up a school, and brought the children of corporate cadres to study with him. To put it bluntly, he "study with the prince." There were only him and three other children in the whole school, a total of four people. When he entered middle school, he became a poor student again and did not do well in his studies.
However, he was good at playing with guns, fell in love with shooting, and eventually became a shooting athlete. In 1976, Taro Aso actually represented Japan at the Montreal Olympics in Canada. His family organized a farewell party and many people went to Montreal to support him. He said he would come back with a gold medal. As a result, I got 41st place in flying saucer shooting .
When he was preparing to take the college entrance examination, because his grades were too poor, he told his father that he wanted to take the entrance examination to a national university, but he was scolded. In the end, I got involved and studied political science at Gakushuin University's Faculty of Political Science and Economics. You know, Gakushuin is where the Japanese royal family and former Chinese people studied. He was still at the bottom of his class and skipped class every day to read comics. Although he later went to study abroad at the University of London in England and Stanford University in the United States, he did not get any degree.
In 1966, Taro Aso ended his study abroad life and went to his relatives Mizuno's family to experience the life of journalism, and then inherited the family business. When he took over the family business, many people questioned it, but his father said in front of the public: "My son is only responsible for the position of 'chief'." At that time, some congressmen said that as long as Taro Aso has his mother around, he will not pave the way for him. Something happened.
(Taro Aso meets with Miss Japan 2009 Emiri Miyasaka)
In 1979, he succeeded his father as a member of the House of Representatives and finally entered politics. Then he worked in the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Liberal Democratic Party and ran around among senior officials. In 1996, his relative Hashimoto formed a cabinet, and he became the Minister of Economic Planning and finally joined the cabinet. In 2001, he became the Minister of Economy and Finance in Yoshiro Mori's cabinet. Unexpectedly, Yoshiro Mori's cabinet was a short-lived cabinet that collapsed within three months. Taro Aso overestimated his capabilities and ran for president of the Liberal Democratic Party, but was defeated by Junichiro Koizumi.
During the Koizumi Cabinet era, Taro Aso was also highly regarded. He often made some unfriendly remarks. When Abe entered the cabinet and then Yasuo Fukuda's cabinet, he also received high attention. In 2008, Taro Aso defeated four opponents and was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party after the dissolution of the Fukuda cabinet, and later became Japan's 92nd Prime Minister .
(Taro Aso and Shinzo Abe)
Taro Aso did not make much contribution to Japan’s economic development after forming the cabinet. Among his 18 cabinet members, 11 are hereditary politicians who succeeded the father after his father died.
Taro Aso continued his consistent policy of being pro-American and close to the West, trying to build an Eastern NATO in Asia and the United States. Economically, his stimulus policies were unsuccessful. The subprime mortgage crisis since 2008 has made the Japanese economy sluggish.
In the end, he followed the same path as previous prime ministers. It was revealed that he could not recognize Chinese characters during his speech (in Japanese, not being able to recognize Chinese characters is equivalent to only being able to read pinyin). He doesn't care about the people's livelihood and takes time to read comics. He was caught reading " Rose Girl " many times. Known as "Big Mouth" and "Comic Head".
Coupled with the fermentation of the Nakagawa Shoichi incident, Taro Aso cannot escape disaster.The Democratic Party of Japan, with Yukio Hatoyama as its core, launched a campaign to force Aso's Liberal Democratic Party to have a palace. At this time, Aso Taro remembered the joke he often made. He said that it was a pity that his grandfather Shigeru Yoshida handed over power to Yukio Hatoyama's father Ichiro Hatoyama without dissolving the parliament. If it were him, he would definitely dissolve the parliament. So he used Shang Fang's sword and dissolved the parliament. But it is still difficult to escape the failure of the parliamentary election. In the end, Aso's cabinet was disbanded and the Liberal Democratic Party suffered a disastrous defeat. He was also known as "Heisheng's Tokugawa Keiki " (Tokugawa Keiki was the last shogun of Japan).
(The indissoluble bond between Taro Aso and comics)
However, the Democratic Party of Japan did not solve various problems in Japan, and they gradually lost their ruling position. Abe Shinzo led the Liberal Democratic Party to win the election. Abe, who entered the palace for the second time, once again promoted Taro Aso and made him his deputy.
Taro Aso is to a large extent a playboy. Without the blessing of his family, he would not be where he is today. He was able to become the Prime Minister of Japan and served as the Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister in Abe’s cabinet entirely because of his good reincarnation. , gave birth to a good family.
Aso is still the dumb, outspoken young man, but as long as he is alive, in a society like Japan that values family background, seniority and favor, he will still be an evergreen figure in the political arena.
