Takada Sanae

Takada Sanae

Takada's grave
Somei cemetery

Takada Sanae ( Japanese 高田 早苗 , often read Takata Sanae , Go : Hampō (半 峰); born April 4, 1860 ( Gregorian ) / March 14th. Ansei 7 ( lunisolar ) in Edo (today Tōkyō ); died December 3, 1938 there) was a Japanese educator and politician.

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Takada Sanae graduated from Tōkyō University in 1882 . He then supported Ōkuma Shigenobu in founding the "Tōkyō Semmon Gakkō" (東京 専 門 学校), the forerunner of Waseda University . When the Reichstag was set up as a national parliament in 1890 , Takada was elected to the House of Representatives (elected lower house ) in the 1890 election in the 2nd constituency of Saitama and then re-elected five times. In 1915 he got a seat in the manor house (majority appointed upper house ).

Takada was active in the government, on the one hand as director general in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the Ministry of Culture . Then he was minister of culture in the Ōkuma II cabinet .

Takada had his greatest impact in the management of private universities, particularly Waseda University. He was there in 1907 Gakuchō (学長) and in 1923 the third president (総 長, Sōchō) of the university.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Takada Sanae . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1505.

Web links

Commons : Takata Sanae  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• CV in the Kotobank

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Parliamentary Library , 近代 日本人 の 肖像 kindai Nihonjin no shōzō , German 'portraits of modern Japanese' : 高田 早苗 Takata Sanae , accessed on June 21, 2020. ( English translation , but without an explicit date of birth)

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