Komura JutarÅ
Jutaro Komura (Japanese小 村 寿 太郎, born October 26, 1855 in Obi, Hyūga Province (now Nichinan, Miyazaki prefecture), † November 26, 1911 in Tōkyō ) was a politician and diplomat of the Meiji period in the Empire of Japan. He was foreign minister of his country twice (1901-1906 and 1908-1911 ).
Training
Komura studied from 1870 at the Daigaku Nanko ( the forerunner of the Imperial University of Tōkyō ). In 1875 he was selected by the Ministry of Education as one of the first students for a study abroad. In 1878 he completed his studies at Harvard Law School.
Career
Two years later, Komura official in the Ministry of Justice, and after he had been in the meantime Supreme Court judge, he was assigned in 1884 to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1893 Komura became First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. During the Sino -Japanese War he was a civilian administrator of the Japanese-occupied territories in Manchuria. He played a key role in the peace negotiations and in the formulation of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895.
In May 1896, he negotiated with his Russian colleague Carl von Waeber about the Komura -Weber Memorandum, whereby the joint intervention of Japan and Russia was legitimized in the internal affairs of Korea.
Until September 1898 he was deputy foreign minister, then ambassador in Washington, DC. In September 1901, Foreign Minister Komura in the first Katsura Cabinet and signed the Boxer Protocol for Japan. In 1902, he appeared at the conclusion of the Anglo -Japanese alliance. In his capacity as Foreign Minister, he also wrote the highly controversial in Japan Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the war. Then he signed the Treaty of Beijing in Beijing in December 1905, which transferred the former Russian rights in Manchuria to Japan. For his services he was ( Sūmitsu -in) appointed Count ( Hakushaku ) and a member of the Privy Council.
From June 1906 to August 1908 was Komura Ambassador in the United Kingdom. After returning to Tokyo, he was again Secretary of State in the second Katsura cabinet. In this position, he signed the root Takahira Agreement with the United States.
He also played a key role in the conclusion of the Japanese- Korean Annexation Treaty in 1910 and the completion of various trade agreements, who restored 1911 Japan's tariff autonomy.
His tomb is located in the Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo.
Order
- Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon
- Order of the Bath, Knight Commander ( KCB )