Japanese Politician, journalist. He served as mayor of Tokyo as well as a member of the House of Representatives and other national positions. He was born in what is now Hiroshima. With the birth surname of Inoue, he was adopted into the Tanomogi family by marriage in 1906; his wife was Tanomogi Koma, a noted violinist and professor of music at the Tokyo Academy of Music. He graduated from the First Higher School in Tokyo, traveled to the United States for further studies, returned to Japan in 1896 to be employed by a large newspaper, the "Hōchi Shimbun" and by 1899, he started his own newspaper, the "Chōnō Shimbun". By 1901, he was instrumental in the expansion of the "Hōchi Shimbun" newspaper into a major national newspaper which increased business coverage, hiring Japan’s first woman journalist, and the publishing of an evening edition in 1906. After traveling about the globe, he established oversea newspapers, the press club of Japan Press Agency, and promoted photo journalism. By 1911, he was involved in politics: he was elected an assemblyman from Asakusa Ward in Tokyo; elected to the Japan House of Representatives in 1915; served as the National Undersecretary of Communications and from 1935 to 1937 the Communication Minister. In these national positions, he developed plans on fascist economic theories which benefited the government control businesses at the cost of the owners; these plans were not started until his left office in 1938. He supported the Imperial Japanese Army. He developed a plan for a national newspaper that would censor the information the citizens could read. In 1938, he returned to his newspaper business. In 1939, he elected Mayor of Tokyo and died in office. His plans were part of the blueprints for the Pre-World War II Japan.