Viscount A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...

was a Japanese politician and educator of the

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, originally hailing from

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. He was active in the Monbu-shō (present Monka-shō) and as the president of institutions such as

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. Hamao was also, very briefly,

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. He was ennobled as a baron on 23 September 1907 and advanced to viscount on 25 November 1921.

Family

* Viscount Shirō Hamao (1896–1935) - A novelist and lawyer. Born Shirō Katō, he later became an adopted son of Arata, and succeeded to the viscountcy.日本人名大辞典+プラス:浜尾四郎 (Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese People Plus: Shirō Hamao)
(in Japanese). Retrieved on 2012-3-14. * Minoru Hamao (1925–2006) - The second son of Shirō, and an instructor and the

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of then-Crown Prince

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(later the 125th

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). *

Stephen Fumio Hamao Stephen Fumio Hamao (濱尾文郎 ''Hamao Fumio'') (9 March 1930 – 8 November 2007) was a Japanese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was the president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants until i ...

(1930–2007) - The third son of Shirō, and a Catholic

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, - , - , - , - 1849 births 1925 deaths Presidents of universities and colleges in Japan Kazoku People of Meiji-period Japan Politicians from Hyōgo Prefecture Presidents of the University of Tokyo {{Japan-hist-stub