The Nobel Peace Prize 1974
Awarded on: 1974-10-09
"for his contribution to stabilize conditions in the Pacific rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty"
Eisaku Satō
Born: 1901-03-27 in Tabuse, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972
Biography
Eisaku Satō was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972. He was the third longest-serving and second longest-uninterrupted–serving Japanese prime minister. Satō is best remembered for securing the return of Okinawa in 1972, and for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974, which stirred controversy. He was a former elite bureaucrat like his elder brother Nobusuke Kishi and a member of the Yoshida school like Hayato Ikeda.