Tokonami Takejirō

Tokonami Takejirō

Tokonami Takejirō ( Japanese 床 次 竹 二郎 ; born December 1, Keiō 2 / Gregorian January 6, 1867 in what is now Kagoshima Prefecture ; died September 8, 1935 ) was a Japanese politician during the Meiji , Taishō and early Shōwa periods .

life and work

Tokonami Takejirō, born the son of a samurai from Satsuma / Kagoshima , graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1890 and then began to work in the Ministry of the Interior . From 1904 to 1905 he was governor of Tokushima , 1908 of Karafuto , 1911 to 1912 Secretary of State (jikan) . During his work at the Ministry was called on supporters of the politician Hara Takashi and in 1914 at a by-election in Kagoshima country to the House of Representatives as a member of rikken seiyūkai in the Reichstag elected.

In the Hara cabinet from 1918 to 1921, Tokonami was interior minister and until the establishment of the independent railway ministry in 1920, director of the railway office (Tetsudō-in sōsai) . During this time he was involved in founding the "Kyōchōkai". In 1919 he supported the establishment of the Dainippon Kokusuikai ( 大日本国粋 会 ), an ultra-nationalist association. Tokonami also remained Minister of the Interior in the Takahashi cabinet from 1921 to 1922.

Tokonami's intention to support the Kiyoura cabinet in 1924 led him and his colleagues to leave the Seiyūkai and found a new party, the Seiyū Hontō ( 政 友 本 党 ). Hoping to become prime minister, Tokonami united the Seiyūkai Hontō with the Kenseikai ( 憲政 会 ) in 1927 and founded the Rikken Minseitō . Tokonami became an advisor to the new party, but left it and founded the Shinsei Club ( 新政 ク ラ ブ ).

In 1929 Tokonami went back to Seiyūkai and was rail minister in the Inukai cabinet from 1931 to 1932 . In 1934 he accepted the post of communications minister in the Okada cabinet , as was often the case in a politically opportunistic manner , against the wishes of the Seiyūkai. The party then excluded him.

Remarks

1. ↑ The "district part" constituency (gunbu- [enkenyo] -ku) with seven seats in the "large constituencies" system at that time comprised [almost] all districts ( gun ) of Kagoshima, that is, the entire prefecture without the then only independent city of Kagoshima and the Amami Islands (at that time = Ōshima district ), which formed two separate single-mandate constituencies.
2. ↑ The Kyōchōkai ( 協調 会 ) was the first attempt to balance the demands of the developing labor movement and the position of the business world.

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Tokonami Takejirō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} National Parliamentary Library : Portraits of Modern Japanese, Tokonami Takejirō (Japanese, English )
2. ↑ Hunter 1984, p. 228: Tokonami Takejirō

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