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Sunday, March 27, 2011

It's a School Life by Satpreet Kaur, Courier Comic Artist
©2011 Satpreet Kaur/Courier Comics

From wikipedia:
Eisaku Satō (March 27, 1901 – June 3, 1975) was a Japanese politician and the 61st, 62nd and 63rd Prime Minister of Japan, elected on November 9, 1964, and re-elected on February 17, 1967, and January 14, 1970, serving until July 7, 1972. He was the longest continual serving prime minister in the history of Japan.

Satō was born in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and studied German law at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1923, he passed the senior civil service examinations, and in the following year, upon graduation, became a civil servant in the Ministry of Railways. He served as Director of the Osaka Railways Bureau from 1944 to 1946 and Vice-Minister for Transportation from 1947 to 1948.

Satō entered the Diet in 1949 as a member of the Liberal Party.

Read Eisaku Satō's Dec. 11, 1974 Nobel Lecture, "The Pursuit of Peace and Japan in the Nuclear Age," free from Nobelprize.org.