هيراتا توسوكى

Hirata Tosuke
Hirata Tosuke; 平田東助
7th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	في المنصب; September 19, 1922 – March 30, 1925
العاهل	Taishō
سبقه	Matsukata Masayoshi
خلفه	Hamao Arata
تفاصيل شخصية
وُلِد	مارس 2, 1849; Yonezawa Domain, Tokugawa shogunate
توفي	أبريل 14, 1925 (aged 76); Tokyo, Empire of Japan
القومية	Japanese
الأنجال	Hirata Shodo; ; Noboru Hirata ; ;
المهنة	Cabinet Minister, Legal Scholar

Count Hirata Tosuke (平田東助, March 2, 1849 – April 14, 1925) was a Japanese statesman and the 7th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, active in the Meiji and Taishō period Empire of Japan.

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Biography

Hirata was born in the Yonezawa Domain, Dewa Province (currently Yamagata Prefecture) as the son of a local samurai. He was sent by the domain to Edo for studies, and subsequently fought in the Boshin War on the side of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. After the Meiji Restoration, was ordered by the domain to go to Tokyo and study at the Daigaku Nankō (predecessor of Tokyo Imperial University). After graduating, he was a student member of the Iwakura Mission of 1871 along with Makino Nobuaki. He later stayed in Germany to study at Heidelberg University (where he studied politics and international law) and Leipzig University (where he studied commercial law). He is the first Japanese with a doctorate degree.

Hirata returned to Japan in 1876 and served in a number of posts in the new Meiji government's Ministry of Finance, and later became Documentation Bureau Director of the Grand Council (Daijō-kan) and Legislation Bureau Director. In 1890, he was selected as a member of the House of Peers of the new Diet of Japan by Imperial command.

He successively held important posts including chief secretary of the Privy Council, director-general of the Legislation Bureau, Agriculture and Commerce Minister in the first Katsura cabinet, Home Minister in the second Katsura cabinet, provisionary Diplomatic Investigation Board member, and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan.

Hirata was also very active in the movement of local agricultural reforms, an industrial cooperative program, and poverty relief projects, striving to protect the local country people against the inflationary economy after the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.

Family tree

Matsushita Uemon

Yasuda Koichiro

Toku Eda

Mastsushita Kusunoki

Hirata Tosuke

Maeda Toshiaki

Mitsui Takamine

Tetsujiro Nakao

Yasue

Jun Iue

Yurou Iue

Mumeno

Shizuko

Keiko

Satoshi Iue

Matsushita Sachiko

Masaharu Matsushita

Hirata Katsumi

Nobuko

Iue Toshimasa

Hiro Matsushita

Masayuki Matsushita
(松下正幸

Atsuko

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References

Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. Harper Perennial (2001). ISBN 0-06-093130-2
Duus, Peter. The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (Twentieth-Century Japan - the Emergence of a World Power, 4). University of California Press (1998). ISBN 0-520-21361-0.
Sims, Richard. Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-23915-7

مناصب سياسية
سبقه Hayashi Yūzō	Minister of Agriculture & Commerce June 1901 – Jul 1903	تبعه Kiyoura Keigo
سبقه Hara Takashi	Home Minister July 1908 – February 1911	تبعه Hara Takashi
سبقه Matsukata Masayoshi	Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal September 1922 – May 1925	تبعه Hamao Arata