Saionji Kinmochi
Junior First Rank Prince Saionji Kinmochi | |
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西園寺 公望 | |
Saionji c. 1920s | |
| Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 30 August 1911 – 21 December 1912 | |
| Monarch | Meiji Taishō |
| Preceded by | Katsura Tarō |
| Succeeded by | Katsura Tarō |
| In office 7 January 1906 – 14 July 1908 | |
| Monarch | Meiji |
| Preceded by | Katsura Tarō |
| Succeeded by | Katsura Tarō |
| President of the Privy Council | |
| In office 27 August 1900 – 13 July 1903 | |
| Monarch | Meiji |
| Preceded by | Kuroda Kiyotaka |
| Succeeded by | Itō Hirobumi |
| Acting Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 10 May 1901 – 2 June 1901 | |
| Monarch | Meiji |
| Preceded by | Itō Hirobumi |
| Succeeded by | Katsura Tarō |
| Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 3 March 1906 – 19 May 1906 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Katō Takaaki |
| Succeeded by | Hayashi Tadasu |
| In office 30 May 1896 – 22 September 1896 | |
| Prime Minister | Itō Hirobumi Matsukata Masayoshi |
| Preceded by | Mutsu Munemitsu |
| Succeeded by | Ōkuma Shigenobu |
| Minister of Education | |
| In office 12 January 1898 – 30 April 1898 | |
| Prime Minister | Itō Hirobumi |
| Preceded by | Hamao Arata |
| Succeeded by | Toyama Masakazu |
| In office 3 October 1894 – 28 September 1896 | |
| Prime Minister | Itō Hirobumi Matsukata Masayoshi |
| Preceded by | Yoshikawa Akimasa |
| Succeeded by | Hachisuka Mochiaki |
| Member of the House of Peers | |
| In office February 1890 – 24 November 1940 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 December 1849 Kyoto, Yamashiro, Japan |
| Died | 24 November 1940 (aged 90) Okitsu, Shizuoka, Japan |
| Political party | Rikken Seiyūkai |
| Mother | Suehiro Ayako |
| Father | Tokudaiji Kin'ito |
| Relatives | Tokudaiji Sanetsune (brother) |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
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Prince Saionji Kinmochi (西園寺 公望, 7 December 1849 – 24 November 1940) was a Japanese politician who was the Prime Minister of Japan from 1906 to 1908 and from 1911 until 1912. He was the last surviving member of the genrō, the small group of unofficial elder statesmen who ran Japanese politics during the Meiji and Taishō periods.[1]
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- Clements, Jonathan. Makers of the Modern World: Prince Saionji. Haus Publishing (2008). ISBN 978-1-905791-68-2
- Conners, Leslie. The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-War Japanese Politics. Routledge Kegan & Paul (1987). ISBN 0-7099-3449-1
- Hackett, Roger F. Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan. Harvard University Press (1971).
- Harada, Kumao. The Saionji-Harada memoirs, 1931–1940: Complete translation into English. University Publications of America (1978). ASIN: B000724T6W
- Oka Yoshitake, et al. Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: Ito Hirobumi, Okuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi. University of Tokyo Press (1984). ISBN 0-86008-379-9