| Office1: | Minister of Labour |
| Primeminister1: | Takeo Fukuda |
| Term Start1: | 14 December 1976 |
| Term End1: | 28 November 1977 |
| Predecessor1: | Sachio Urano |
| Successor1: | Katushi Fujii |
| Office2: | Minister of Transport |
| Primeminister2: | Takeo Miki |
| Term Start2: | 15 September 1976 |
| Term End2: | 14 December 1976 |
| Predecessor2: | Mutsuo Kimura |
| Successor2: | Hajime Tamura |
| Office3: | Minister of Labour |
| Primeminister3: | Eisaku Satō |
| Term Start3: | 9 November 1964 |
| Term End3: | 3 June 1965 |
| Predecessor3: | Himself |
| Successor3: | Hisao Kodaira |
| Primeminister4: | Hayato Ikeda |
| Term Start4: | 18 July 1964 |
| Term End4: | 9 November 1964 |
| Predecessor4: | Takeo Ohashi |
| Successor4: | Himself |
| Primeminister5: | Hayato Ikeda |
| Term Start5: | 19 July 1960 |
| Term End5: | 18 July 1961 |
| Predecessor5: | Raizo Matsuno |
| Successor5: | Kenji Fukunaga |
| Primeminister6: | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Term Start6: | 10 July 1957 |
| Term End6: | 12 June 1958 |
| Predecessor6: | Shūtarō Matsuura |
| Successor6: | Tadao Kuraishi |
| Office7: | Chief Cabinet Secretary |
| Primeminister7: | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Term Start7: | 25 February 1957 |
| Term End7: | 10 July 1957 |
| Predecessor7: | Himself |
| Successor7: | Kiichi Aichi |
| Primeminister8: | Tanzan Ishibashi |
| Term Start8: | 23 December 1956 |
| Term End8: | 25 February 1957 |
| Predecessor8: | Ryūtaro Nemoto |
| Successor8: | Himself |
| Birth Date: | 12 December 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Futatsui, Akita, Japan |
| Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Alma Mater: | Waseda University |
was a Japanese politician who served in the cabinets of multiple conservative administrations. In the 1980s, it was revealed that the KGB considered him to be an agent of the Soviet Union.
Born in Noshiro, Akita, Ishida entered Waseda University, where he majored in political science and economics. After graduating in 1939, he joined Chugai Shōgyō Shimpo (later renamed Nihon Keizai Shimbun) and was appointed as its chief correspondent in Shanghai.
In 1947, Ishida was elected to the House of Representatives. He joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1955, serving as Chief Cabinet Secretary under two prime ministers, Tanzan Ishibashi and Nobusuke Kishi, from 23 December 1956 to 10 July 1957. Widely viewed as a friend and proponent of labor unions (an unusual stance in the pro-business LDP), he was also appointed to five terms as minister of labor under four different prime ministers, in addition to one term as minister of transport. While minister of labor under Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda in 1960, Ishida successfully negotiated the end of the 1960 Miike Coal Mine Strike, which remains the largest labor-management dispute in Japanese history.[1]
In January 1963, Ishida published an article in Chūō Kōron predicting that the Liberal Democratic Party would lose power to the Japan Socialist Party by 1970 due to ongoing changes in Japanese society, including urbanization, increasing education, and the decreasing number of farmers, who were generally seen as fundamental supporters of the LDP.[1] [2] Ishida's article shocked the LDP, but was hailed as perceptive, and stimulated the party to make a number of reforms, including to changing its policies to increase its appeal among urban workers.[1] [2]
Ishida had formed and chaired the Japan-USSR Friendship Parliamentarians' Union in 1973, visiting Moscow in 1973, 1974 and 1977. In 1982 Stanislav Levchenko, a KGB Major who had defected to the United States in 1979, testified before the U.S. Congress that Ishida was an agent for the Soviet Union, codenamed "HOOVER".[3] [4] This was later confirmed in the "Mitrokhin Documents" smuggled out of the Soviet Union by Vasily Mitrokhin, a former KGB employee who fled to England in 1992. In response to Levchenko's revelations, the CIA and the Japanese police launched an investigation, and Ishida abruptly left politics in November 1983. However, the investigation ultimately concluded that Ishida had not leaked any sensitive information.
An amateur rosarian, Ishida planted the yard of his house with various kind of roses. Two years after his death, his rose garden was donated to the City of Odate and named .[5] It is since opened to the public every June.[6]
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