Japan
Katō Takaaki
1860–1926 Foreign Minister of Japan, 1914–1915
The son of a former samurai retainer in Owari Province, Katō graduated at the top of his class from the University of Tokyo law department, worked for Mitsubishi and married a daughter of its president, Iwasaki Yatarō. After serving as ambassador in London he became foreign minister in April 1914. He took Japan into the war on Britain's side under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and in January 1915 presented China with the Twenty-One Demands; he left the ministry later that year. As leader of the Kenseikai party and prime minister from 1924, he saw the universal manhood suffrage law of 1925 passed, giving the vote to all men over 25. He died in office on 28 January 1926.
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- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katō_Takaaki
- www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/54
- www.encyclopedia.com/reference/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kato-komei-takaaki
- en.wikisource.org/wiki/1922_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Japan
- en.wikisource.org/wiki/1926_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Japan
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishii_Kikujirō