WikipediaExtracts:Hayato Ikeda
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Hayato Ikeda (池田 勇人, Ikeda Hayato, 3 December 1899 – 13 August 1965) was a Japanese bureaucrat and later politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964. He is best known for his Income Doubling Plan, which promised to double Japan's GDP in ten years.
Ikeda is also known for repairing U.S.–Japan relations and Japanese domestic political rifts after the contentious 1960 Anpo Protests, as well as for presiding over the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
