Okinori Kaya

Okinori Kaya
賀屋 興宣
Minister of Justice
In office 18 July 1963 – 18 July 1964
Prime Minister	Hayato Ikeda
Preceded by	Kunio Nakagaki
Succeeded by	Hitoshi Takahashi
Minister of Finance
In office 18 October 1941 – 19 February 1944
Prime Minister	Hideki Tojo
Preceded by	Masatsune Ogura
Succeeded by	Sotaro Ishiwata
In office 4 June 1937 – 26 May 1938
Prime Minister	Fumimaro Konoe
Preceded by	Toyotarō Yūki
Succeeded by	Shigeaki Ikeda
Vice Minister of Finance
In office 2 February 1937 – 4 June 1937
Prime Minister	Senjūrō Hayashi
Minister	Toyotarō Yūki
Preceded by	Takao Kawagoe
Succeeded by	Sotaro Ishiwata
Personal details
Born	30 January 1889 Hiroshima, Japan
Died	9 May 1977(1977-05-09) (aged 88) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University

Okinori Kaya (賀屋 興宣, Kaya Okinori, January 30, 1889 – May 9, 1977) was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1937 to 1938 and 1941 to 1944, and as Minister of Justice from 1963 to 1964.

Born in Hiroshima, Kaya graduated from Tokyo Imperial University and joined the Ministry of Finance. After a successful career he became Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of Fumimaro Konoe and again in the wartime cabinet of Hideki Tojo. After the Japanese surrender he was sentenced to life in prison by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Paroled in 1955, Kaya was rehabilitated and served in the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party, and as Minister of Justice under Hayato Ikeda.