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  Matsukata Masayoshi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matsukata Masayoshi (松方 正義; February 25, 1835–July 2, 1924) was a Japanese politician and the 4th (May 6, 1891 - August 8, 1892) and 6th (September 18, 1896 - January 12, 1898) Prime Minister of Japan.
At the start of the Meiji Restoration, Matsukata was in Nagasaki and appointed to the staff of the Court of Nagasaki as an officer of the new government.
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 Matsukata Masayoshi and the Birth of a National Financial Infrastructure | HISTOR¥   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Matsukata Masayoshi and the Birth of a National Financial Infrastructure
Matsukata must be credited as the first Japanese policy maker to grasp the meaning and functioning of modern finance.
Matsukata left for Paris in early 1878 as the most distinguished member (Ōkubo Toshimichi 大久保利通, utmost head of government and chairman of the delegation, did not travel to Europe).
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 ANCESTORS AT HOME AND ABROAD - New York Times
Reischauer's other grandfather, on her father's side, was Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was Prime Minister twice and Finance Minister for 15 years at the end of the 19th century.
We are told, for example, how the young Matsukata, educated in the style that befitted his samurai background, could not participate in fencing lessons, since his family was too deeply in debt to pay for such extracurricular activities.
Matsukata played an important role in the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the uprising that broke the grip of the Shogun's military dictatorship, which had held power for two and a half centuries.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Matsukata,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A Satsuma clansman and a genro, he was a leading figure in the modernization of Japan.
After the Meiji restoration (1868), Westernizers from the former Choshu and Satsuma domains came to power, abolishing feudalism and modernizing society.
Miyazaki, Japan, residents settle lawsuit on government subsidies for resort.
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 Masayoshi Matsukata - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Masayoshi Matsukata - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Masayoshi Matsukata (1835-1924), Japanese prime minister (1891-1892 and 1896-1898).
Born into a samurai family in Kagoshima, he studied Western...
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 1996 AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 126   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Steve Ericson questions the common contention that the well-known selling of government enterprises by Matsukata Masayoshi during the 1880s signified the government's retreat from active intervention in the economy.
Scholars generally agree that the Matsukata financial reform of the 1880s marked a critical turning point in the evolution of state-business relations in modern Japan.
This paper argues, however, that the scale and scope of government economic activity during and after the Matsukata reform suggest the need to qualify the degree to which state industrial policy in fact became non-interventionist after 1880.
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 Samurai Rebellions Strain Government Funds
Samurai, although still angry at being stripped of their power by the Meiji government, are not in a hurry to try rebelling again after their crushing defeat by the modern Japanese army.
Masayoshi, the new Minister of Finance, has plans for extensive financial reforms.
He plans to encourage industry, reduce inflation, and create a national bank, among other things (2) The new financial reforms are only part of a series of reforms since Emperor Meiji took power in October of 1868, when he was only sixteen.
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 Tane Matsukata Dies; Japanese Educator, 71 - New York Times
LEAD: Tane Matsukata, founder of the Nishimachi International School in Tokyo, died of heart failure on Thursday at Toho Medical University Hospital in Tokyo.
Tane Matsukata, founder of the Nishimachi International School in Tokyo, died of heart failure on Thursday at Toho Medical University Hospital in Tokyo.
Miss Matsukata's paternal grandfather, Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, helped establish Japan's banking and financial system, and her maternal grandfather, Ryoichiro Arai, was one of Japan's first silk merchants in the United States.
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 H.M. Reischauer Dies in California
Haru Matsukata Reischauer, an author, granddaughter of a Japanese prince and wife of the statesman and scholar for whom Harvard's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies is named, died Sept. 23 in La Jolla, Calif.
Born in Japan in 1915, she attended schools in Tokyo and was a graduate of Principia College in Illinois.
Her paternal grandfather, Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, was prime minister and finance minister of Japan in the late 19th century and was among the most important leaders of the movement to modernize the nation.
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 Meiji Restoration/Revolution in Japan
Matsukata Masayoshi of Satsuma was the Minister of Finance over a ten year period.
The national government created some programs, such as public education, by declaring that it must be done and leaving it to the villages to finance and arrange for its provision.
Matsukata was aided in his rise to the office of the Minister of Finance by
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 taishosum
They were succeeded by the likes of Ito Hirobumi, Yamagata Aritomo and Matsukata Masayoshi.
Okuma Shigenobu from Hizen was a bit of an outsider, but he was a Councillor and actually served as Finance Minister.
He was succeeded by Matsukata Masayoshi from Satsuma.
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 AllRefer.com - Masayoshi Matsukata (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Masayoshi Matsukata (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Masayoshi Matsukata[mAsI´OshE mAtsOO´kA´´tA] Pronunciation Key, 1835–1924, Japanese statesman.
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 Japanese Financial History Resources II- M-... | HISTOR¥   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Matsukata Masayoshi, Report on the Adoption of the Gold Standard in Japan (unabridged facsimile of the 1899 Tokyo edition), Elibron Classics.
Muroyama Masayoshi 室山正義, 松方財政研究ー不退転の政策行動と経済危機克服の実相 matsukata zaisei kenkyū - futaiten no seisaku kōdō to keizai kiki kokufuku no jissō (Studies in Matsukata's finance - indomitable policy making and the realities of overcoming economic crisis) (Kyoto, 2004).
Umemura Mataji 梅村又次 and Nakamura Takafusa 中村隆英 (eds.), 松方財政と殖産興業政策 matsukata zaisei to shokusan kōgyō seisaku (Matsukata's financial politics and the policies of industrial development) (Tokyo, 1983).
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 Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage
The author "tells the story of her two grandfathers: the.
Meiji statesman Matsukata Masayoshi, whose stringent financial policies are credited with steering Japan safely through its first economic crisis, and Arai Rioichiro, who helped develop Japan's silk exports to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries." (Libr J) Genealogies.
Biography, United States, Japan, Statesmen, Businessmen, Japanese, Matsukata, Masayoshi,, 1835-1924, Statesmen, Japan, Biography, Biography / Autobiography, History, Asia - Japan
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 Matsukata, Masayoshi - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He became prime minister again (1896-97) and was keeper of the privy seal (1917-22).
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 Matsukata, Masayoshi - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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 Oh Shit It's On Fire!
SO-- bear in mind-- Kakuma was classmates with YOSHIDA SHOIN.
This probably explains why in later years, someone from Satsuma like Matsukata Masayoshi could consider Kakuma his "economic mentor," and why many people in the former Choshu-Satsuma clique respected him.
Naganuma-ryu was a school of STRATEGY (not martial arts, as I initially thought) and it was as a school of STRATEGY that it was the mainstay of Aizu military deployments.
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