Egi Kazuyuki

Egi Kazuyuki

Egi Kazuyuki ( Japanese 江木 千 之 ; * May 21, 1853 in the province of Suō ; † August 23, 1932 ) was a statesman in the Japanese Empire , who was governor of Aichi between 1897 and 1898 and governor of Hiroshima from 1898 to 1903 and was Minister of Education in the Kiyoura cabinet for a few months in 1924 .

Life

Egi Kazuyuki, son of a samurai from the Iwakuni clan , attended the English School in Osaka and then began studying at the Sapporo Agricultural School and at the South University (Daigaku Nankō) . He then moved to Kōgakuryō , the engineering school of the Ministry of Public Works (Kōbu-shō) , which he had to leave in 1874 due to illness. He then moved to the Ministry of Education (Mombu-shō) and was initially a teacher at the Kaisei Academy in Tokyo's Arakawa district . He later became inspector in the Ministry of Education and in 1890 council (sanjikan) , before he became General Director of the Department of General School Affairs in the Ministry of Education in 1891. In 1892 he moved to the Interior Ministry ( Naimu-shō ) and became Executive Secretary of Interior Minister Inoue Kaoru as well as Secretary of the Interior Ministry. Thereafter he was General Director of the Department of Prefectural Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior and from February 6, 1896 to April 7, 1897 Governor of Ibaraki Prefecture , before he was Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture between April 7 and November 13, 1897 . He then acted from November 13, 1897 to December 28, 1898 as governor of Aichi and then from December 28, 1898 to June 29, 1903 as governor of Hiroshima . Thereupon he held from June 29, 1903 to January 11, 1907 again as governor of the Kumamoto Prefecture.

In addition, on August 22, 1904, Egi Kazuyuki also became a member of the Manor House ( Kizokuin ) , the upper house of the Reichstag (Teikoku-gikai) , and was a member of this until July 3, 1924. On January 7, 1924, he took over the office of education minister in the Kiyoura cabinet and held this until June 11, 1924. He was instrumental in the reform of the education system in the Taishō period . After the resignation of the cabinet and leaving the government, he became a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Sūmitsu-in ) on June 28, 1924 and was a member of this advisory body of the Tennō until his death on August 23, 1932. He was also active on the board of the Japanese Red Cross , the Association for the Support of the Japanese Police (Keisatsu Kyokai) and as President of Kokugakuin University . His adopted son was the politician Egi Tasuku , who was a minister in several governments.

Web links

• Entry in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
• The Governments of Japan 1885-1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiyoura Cabinet

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Egi surname, Kazuyuki the first name.