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Hidejirō Nagata
, was a politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan, serving as a member of the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan, twice as a cabinet minister, and also serving twice as mayor of Tokyo. Biography Nagata was born in Mihara District, Hyōgo Prefecture, in what is now part of the city of Minamiawaji. After graduating from the predecessor of Kyoto Imperial University and serving as a school principal in Sumoto, Hyōgo from 1902 to 1904, he obtained a posting in the Home Ministry and rose to become head of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department. From April to October 1916, Nagata was appointed governor of Mie Prefecture, returning afterwards to the Home Ministry to head the Public Security Bureau. From December 22, 1920, to May 29, 1923, he served as Deputy Mayor of Tokyo. From May 29, 1923, to September 8, 1924, Nagata was appointed mayor of Tokyo, and was thus in office during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake of September 1, which destroyed most of the city. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihara District, Hyōgo
was a district located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 53,638 and a density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the ratio of a substance's mass to its volume. The symbol most often used for density is ''ρ'' (the lower case Greek letter rho), although the Latin letter ''D'' (or ''d'') can also be u ... of 234.05 persons per km2. The total area was 229.17 km2. Former towns and villages * Midori * Mihara * Nandan * Seidan Merger *On January 11, 2005 - the towns of Midori, Mihara, Nandan and Seidan were merged to create the city of Minamiawaji. Mihara District was dissolved as a result of this merger. References Former districts of Hyōgo Prefecture {{Hyogo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōki Hirota
was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1936 to 1937. Originally his name was . He was executed for war crimes committed during the Second Sino-Japanese War at the Tokyo Trials. Early life Hirota was born on 14 February 1878, in in what is now part of Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, to stonemason Hirota Tokubei (廣田 徳平). His father had been adopted into the Hirota family of stonemasons. Tokubei married Take (タケ), a daughter of the president of a Japanese noodle company. On 14 February 1878, the couple had a son, whom Tokubei named . They later had three more children. Tokubei's name is engraved on the epigraph that recognized masons who contributed to the construction of a statue of Emperor Kameyama in Higashi kōen (東公園) in Fukuoka city. Hirota's writing was recognized as good from a young age since the name plate of the torii gate of Suikyo Shrine was written by Hirota when he was 11. After attending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryūtarō Nagai
was a politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan, serving a member of the Lower House of the Diet of Japan eight times, and four as a cabinet minister. He was noted in his early political career as a champion of universal suffrage, social welfare, labor unions, women's rights and Pan-Asianism. pages 161–184 Biography Nagai was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, where his father had been a samurai in the service of the Maeda clan. Nagai studied at a middle school run by Doshisha University and the Kansei Gakuen and converted to Unitarianism in 1901. He was a devout Christian, and read the Bible every day. He studied at the School of Politics and Economics at Waseda University, where he was highly influenced by Abe Isoo and the concept of "Christian-Socialism" and with Abe's assistance he secured a scholarship to study at Manchester College within Oxford University in England for further studies. He returned to graduate from Waseda with a degree in Colonial Stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyotarō Yūki
was a central banker in the Empire of Japan, serving as the 15th Governor of the Bank of Japan and twice as a cabinet minister. Biography Yūki was born in the onsen resort of Akayu in what is now part of Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture,Bank of Japan15th Governor/ref> where his father was a sake brewer. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in political science, he obtained a position at the Bank of Japan from January 1904. Yūki was promoted rapidly, serving as auditor in the bank's New York City branch, branch manager in Kyoto, Corporate Secretary, and branch manager in Osaka. In 1918, at the recommendation of Junnosuke Inoue, Yūki was appointed to the Board of Directors, while still maintaining his post as Osaka branch manager. However, following the assassination of Yasuda Zenjirō, Yūki left the Bank of Japan to join the Board of Directors for the Yasuda zaibatsu in November 1921, and was appointed Managing Director of Yasuda Bank the same year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideo Kodama
Count , was a politician, and wartime cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan. He was the eldest son of famed Russo-Japanese War general Kodama Gentarō, and his wife was the daughter of Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake. Biography Kodama was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture. After graduating from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1900, he obtained a position at the Ministry of Finance, passing his career civil service examinations the same year. He served in a number of bureaucratic posts. During the Russo-Japanese War, he was assigned to the Imperial General Headquarters and sent to the Liaodong Peninsula (under Japanese occupation), where he served as liaison between the civilian government in Tokyo and the Japanese general armies in Manchuria. Following the war, he returned to the Finance Ministry as head of the government's Tobacco Monopoly. He was later assigned to serve in the Japanese Government-General of Korea, as a secretary to the Privy Council, and as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenjirō Horikiri
was a Japanese official who served as Minister for Home Affairs under Prime Minister Kijūrō Shidehara from 1945 to 1946. His brother, Zenbei Horikiri was also a politician and prominent member of the Rikken Seiyūkai political party. Biography Horikiri was born in Fukushima Prefecture. After his graduation from Tokyo Imperial University, he entered the Home Ministry. As Director of the Censorship Department within the Home Ministry from 1917 to 1918, he ordered that publication of articles in newspapers concerning the Rice Riots of 1918 be banned, as they appear to be inciting violence. From 1925 to 1926, Horikiri was governor of Kanagawa Prefecture. The following year, he returned to the Home Ministry as Director of the Reconstruction Bureau, which was in charge of urban planning and the rebuilding of Tokyo in the aftermath of the Great Kantō earthquake. In 1929, Horikiri was appointed Mayor of Tokyo City, and at the end of 1930 was Vice Minister of Colonial Affairs. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakamura Yoshikoto
was a government bureaucrat, entrepreneur, and politician in late Meiji period Japan. He served as second Chairman of the South Manchurian Railway Company, Mayor of Tokyo, Railroad Minister, and was a member of the House of Peers. He was also known as ''Nakamura Zekō''. Biography Nakamura was born in Aki Province, in what is now part of Saeki-ku, Hiroshima; however, as his father was a retainer of the Chōshū Domain, for political reasons Nakamura frequently claimed to be a native of Yamaguchi prefecture. He attended the First Tokyo Middle School (now Hibiya High School), where one of his classmates and close friends was the future author Natsume Sōseki. After graduating from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1893, Nakamura obtained a posting as a bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance, and was sent to Akita Prefecture. He was later sent to work at the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan, where he met his lifelong mentor, Gotō Shimpei. After the Treaty of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Tokyo
This is a list of mayors of Tokyo from 1898 to 1943. Prior to 1898 the Mayor of Tokyo was also the Governor of Tokyo. In 1943, the city's independent institutions were absorbed by the prefectural administration resulting in the cessation of the office of mayor. Most mayors of Tokyo were graduates of Tokyo Imperial University or previously worked at the Home Ministry. Mayors of Tokyo (1898–1943) * Matsuda Hideo (6 October 1898 – 16 June 1903) * Ozaki Yukio (29 June 1903 – 29 June 1912) two terms * Sakatani Yoshiro (12 July 1912 – 25 February 1915) * Okuda Yoshito (15 June 1915 – 21 August 1917) * Tajiri Inajirō (5 April 1918 – 27 November 1920) *Gotō Shinpei (17 December 1920 – 27 April 1923) *Hidejirō Nagata (29 May 1923 – 8 September 1924) *Nakamura Zenko (8 October 1924 – 8 June 1926) *Izawa Takio (16 July 1926 – 23 October 1926) * Nishikubo Hiromichi (29 October 1926 – 12 December 1927) *Ichiki Otohilco (7 January 1928 – 14 February 1929) * Horikiri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotō Shinpei
Kazoku, Count was a Japanese politician, physician and cabinet minister of the Taishō period, Taishō and early Shōwa period Empire of Japan. He served as the head of civilian affairs of Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese Taiwan, the first director of the South Manchuria Railway, the seventh mayor of Tokyo City, the first Chief Scout of Japan, the first Director-General of NHK, the third principal of Takushoku University, and in a number of cabinet posts. Gotō was one of the most important politicians and administrators in Japanese national government during a time of modernization and reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was also a significant advocate for Japanese colonialism, and defended Japan's violent incursions in China and Korea. Early life Gotō was born in Isawa District, Iwate, Isawa, Mutsu Province (present-day in Iwate Prefecture) to Gotō Sanetaka, a retainer of the Rusu clan, itself vassal to the warlord Date Masamune of the Sendai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawamura Takeji
Kawamura Takeji (川村 竹治, 1 September 1871 – 8 September 1955) was a Japanese businessman and the 12th Governor-General of Taiwan (1928–1929), Minister of Justice (1932). He was governor of Wakayama Prefecture (1911–1914), Kagawa Prefecture (1914–1915) and Aomori Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori (city), Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is border ... (1917–1918). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kawamura, Takeji 1871 births 1955 deaths 20th-century Japanese businesspeople Governors of Aomori Prefecture Governors of Kagawa Prefecture Governors of Wakayama Prefecture Government ministers of Japan Governors-general of Taiwan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eitaro Mabuchi
was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Yamagata Prefecture (1906-1912), Yamaguchi Prefecture (1914-1916), Mie Prefecture (1914-1916), Hiroshima Prefecture from April 1916 to May 1918, Kyoto Prefecture (1918-1921) and mayor of Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ... (1921–1924). {{DEFAULTSORT:Mabuchi, Eitaro Governors of Hiroshima 1867 births 1943 deaths 20th-century mayors of places in Japan Japanese Home Ministry government officials Governors of Yamagata Prefecture Governors of Yamaguchi Prefecture Governors of Mie Prefecture Governors of Kyoto Mayors of Kyoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
