Kiyoura Keigo

Kiyoura Keigo

Count Kiyoura Keigo ( Japanese 清浦 奎 吾 , actually Ōkubo Fujaku ( 大 久保 普 寂 ); born February 14, 1850 in Kumamoto Prefecture ; † November 5, 1942 ) was a Japanese politician and the 23rd Prime Minister of Japan .

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Kiyoura Keigo was the fifth son of a Buddhist priest named Ōkubo Ryōshi ( 大 久保 了 思 ). From 1865 to 1871 he studied at Hirose Tanso's private school . During this time he was friends with Nomura Morihide, the governor of Saitama Prefecture , and renamed himself Kiyoura Keigo . Kiyoura first worked for the local government and then moved to the central government, where he kept in close contact with Yamagata Aritomo . In 1876, Kiyoura joined the Ministry of Justice . He later became Vice Minister of Justice, then Minister of Justice from 1896 to 1898, 1898 to 1900, and 1901 to 1903. He was then Minister of Agriculture and Trade from 1903 to 1906 , and from 1905 to 1906 he was also Minister of the Interior.

He was elected to the House of Lords and was a member of the Privy Council from 1906 to 1917 . In 1914 he was asked to form a cabinet, but the Navy refused to appoint a minister. From 1922 to 1924 he was the chairman of the Privy Council. From January 7, 1924 to June 11, 1924, Kiyoura was Prime Minister of Japan for a short time , with his appointment once again calling the "Movement for the Protection of a Constitutional Government" (憲政 擁護 運動, Kensei yōgo undō), which eventually led to the end of his political career.

In 1933, following preparatory work by Kiyoura and the German Ambassador Ernst Arthur Voretzsch , the Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama founded the German Cultural Institute (独 逸 文化 研究所) in Kyoto, the forerunner of today's Goethe Institute there. The architect was Murano Tōgo (1891–1984).

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Kiyoura Keigo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the German Cultural Institute, Japanese

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