Katō Takaaki

Katō Takaaki (Japanese加藤 高明, also in the On- reading Katō Komei; born January 25, 1860 ( traditionally Ansel 7/1/3 ) in Saya, County Ama, Owari province (now Aisai, Aichi Prefecture ), † 28 January. , 1926 in Tōkyō ) was several times Minister for Foreign Affairs and 24th Prime Minister of Japan.

Life

Katō Takaaki was born on January 25, 1860 in Asai at Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture as the son of a samurai of the Nagoya clan. Prior to his political career, he worked for the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu. This gave him the political cover, at the same time he represented his interests in politics. He married in 1886 a daughter of Iwasaki Yataro. In 1887 he became secretary of the Foreign Minister Okuma Shigenobu and headed at times, the Department of Finance. From 1894 to 1899 he was ambassador to Britain. For a few months he was foreign minister in 1901 and 1906. In 1902 he was elected to the Shūgiin ( lower house). In 1906 he resigned from conflict of interest with the policies and Mitsubishi. He was president of the newspaper Tokyo Shimbun Nichinichi. From 1908 to 1913 he was again nominated as ambassador to London. In 1913, he was Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Katsura taro. In the same year he was elected Chairman of the Conservative Party Rikken Dōshikai. In protest against the restructuring Gotō Shinpei resigned from the party. The party was called new Kenseikai. 1914 Okuma Shigenobu below, Katō worked as Foreign Minister of the Twenty-one Demands to the Chinese government. To incidents of corruption with Okuma in the March elections Katō resigned from his post in protest. In imperial request, he was determined to Kizokuin 1915 ( House of Lords).

With his Cabinet the " three the Constitution protected parties " ( Gokcen Sampa from Rikken Seiyūkai, Kenseikai and Kakushin Club ) on June 11, 1924 to January 28, 1926 he was the 24th Prime Minister of Japan before the first party government. In his tenure, the universal suffrage was adopted with the deletion of the census suffrage for men and the law to maintain public safety came into force. The military has been reduced and modernized, military drill in schools. In 1925 an assassination attempt instead to Katō.

Katō died on January 28, 1926 in his office. He was honored by England with the Order of St Michael and St George.

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• Template: Internet resource / maintenance / access date is not in the ISO FormatKatō Takaaki. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. " Encyclopædia Britannica Online", retrieved on 14 June 2009 (English).