was a politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war
Empire of Japan
The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent fo ...
.
Nakashōji was a graduate of the
Osaka Prefectural Kitano High School
is a secondary school in Osaka, Japan founded in 1873.
It moved to its current location in Yodogawa Ward in 1931. The school is operated by the Osaka Prefectural Board of Education. It has been named a model school by the Ministry of Education, ...
. After graduating from the
Kaisei Academy
The Kaisei Academy (開成学園) is a preparatory private secondary school for boys located in the Arakawa ward of Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1871.
The Kaisei Academy has since educated notable figures across many different fields and is ...
, he worked for a period as court-appointed attorney in the lower court system, and subsequently as a legal councilor in the Court of Appeals and assessor in the Administrative Court system. Afterwards, he entered the central government bureaucracy, and served in various capacities within the
Ministry of Communications
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and
Home Ministry. He was selected as
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce under the 3rd
Katsura administration from 1912 to 1913, and again to the same portfolio under the
Terauchi administration from 1916 to 1918. He was later appointed to a seat in the
Upper House
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of the
Diet of Japan
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, and served on the
Privy Council
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.
1866 births
1924 deaths
Government ministers of Japan
Kaisei Academy alumni
Members of the House of Peers (Japan)
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