Kaneko Kentaro

Kaneko Kentaro

Kaneko in Boston

Kaneko Kentarō ( Japanese 金子 賢 太郎 ; born March 13, 1853 in Fukuoka ; died May 16, 1942 ) was a Japanese politician during the Meiji period . In 1900 he was made a baron , in 1907 a vice count and in 1934 a count .

life and work

Kaneko Kentarō was born a samurai in the service of the Kuroda clan . In 1871 he was taken to the United States as part of the Iwakura mission , where he studied law at Harvard University and graduated there. On his return he became a lecturer in basic law courses at the University of Tokyo .

From 1880 onwards he worked as the secretary of the Genrōin , was from 1885 private secretary of Itō Hirobumi and worked with his legal knowledge on the Meiji constitution . He then worked again for a short time as a lecturer at the University of Tokyo. In 1890 he became a member of the manor house , the upper house of the Reichstag, in 1894 for the first Ito cabinet deputy minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Trade, and in 1898 in the third Ito cabinet its minister. From 1900 to 1901 he was Minister of Justice in the fourth Ito cabinet .

When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, Kaneko was sent to the United States to represent Japan on this matter. In 1906 he became a member of the Sūmitsu-in and remained so until his death. After Ito's death in 1909, he withdrew from the political leadership of Japan.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kaneko Kentarō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X
• Hunter, Janet: Kaneko Kentaro . In: Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Kodansha International, 1984. ISBN 4-7700-1193-8 .

Web links

Commons : Kaneko Kentarō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ↑ On the left the entrepreneur Dan Takuma , in the middle Kaneko Kentarō, on the right the diplomat Kurino Shinichirō (栗 野 慎 一郎; 1851–1937).
2. ↑ jikan , see also Secretary of State (Japan) #Jimu Jikan

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kaneko is the family name, Kentarō the first name.