Background
Sanehiko Yamamoto was born on January 5, 1885, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
実彦 山本
Sanehiko Yamamoto was born on January 5, 1885, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Sanehiko Yamamoto graduated from a middle school. He also attended Nihon University which he left without graduating.
After graduating from a middle school taught at an elementary school in Okinawa for two years. Returning to Tokyo, attended Nihon University. Left without graduating to become editor of Moji Shimpo (newspaper). Later was Yamato Shimbun's correspondent at London, and upon return became president of Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun.
Later founded Kaizo Publishing Company and published the Kaizo (Reconstruction) magazine and literary, social, political and economic books. Sanehiko Yamamoto was a member of Tokyo City Assembly, and of Diet (1930).
Sanehiko Yamamoto was purged after the Japanese surrender. After being depurged resumed his publication house.
Sanehiko Yamamoto is less commonly remembered as a politician. And yet, it was as a public servant and as a champion of the people that Yamamoto had always hoped to make his mark, and his achievements in those other areas are indivisible from his achievements as a lifetime politician. Sanehiko Yamamoto never achieved the lofty political posts to which he aspired, but his political accomplishments mirror his achievements as a writer and publisher, and as with his attainments in other areas, Yamamoto Sanehiko’s political career in turn reflects the mercurial nature of interwar Japan.
