Background
Seiichiro Yasui was born on March 11, 1891 in Okayama, Japan.
誠一郎 安井
Seiichiro Yasui was born on March 11, 1891 in Okayama, Japan.
After a course in German law at the Imperial University of Tokyo , returned to the Ministry of the Interior.
Seiichiro Yasui entered Home Ministry and served as director of police departments in Toyama, Hyogo and Fukushima prefectures. Meantime took leave from government service to study in Germany and to run for the Diet without success in the first general election (1928).
He entered Tokyo Municipal Government (1929) and was appointed director of its Public Health and Social Affairs bureaus. He was transferred to Korea to become private secretary to Kazunari Ugaki, Governor-General of Korea.
Later served successively as director of Monopoly Bureau and governor of Keikido Province (both in Korea). Became director of Overseas Bureau, Overseas Ministry and governor of Niigata Prefecture which post he resigned at the request of Home Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma of the Konoe Cabinet (1941).
During the war served as director of Defense Bureau and Electricity Bureau of Tokyo Municipal Government. Due to lack of men of required caliber caused by the purge of wartime ministers, he was picked to become Vice-Minister of Welfare (1946). Became governor of Tokyo Metropolis (May 1946) and thence has been re-elected to the same post three times (1947, 1951 and 1955).