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Hara was assassinated by Nakaoka Kon'ichi, a far-right nationalist, on 4 November 1921. Hara was the first commoner and first Christian appointed to be Prime Minister of Japan, informally known as Hara Kei, and given the moniker of "commoner prime minister" (平民宰相, heimin saishō).
Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise, 1905-1915: Harvard University Press 1971 Jerome B. Grieder Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-37: Harvard University Press 1973 William G. Beasley: The Meiji Restoration: Stanford University Press 1975 Jian Youwen: The Taiping Revolutionary Movement: Yale ...
What started Hara on his career as an animation creator was visiting an animation film company as part of his job hunting activities after graduating from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College (TDG). He recklessly left the tour, an act normally forbidden for visitors, and then begged an artistic director to give him a job.
The 1918 Rice Riots and the assassination of Prime Minister Hara Kei only deepened concerns that dangerous ideas were spreading through society. Efforts to pass a Peace Preservation Law began within the Diet as early as 1921, and gathered momentum after the formation of the Japan Communist Party in 1922, although opposition to the law remained ...
On March 4, Nakagawa Tetsujirō mentioned in a letter to Hara Kei, Director of the Commercial Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "On the 1st of this month, through an introduction by a friend, a Chinese man named Sun Wen (a Western doctor) visited the consulate.
He rose to a high rank within the party, eventually serving as secretary-general during the administration of Prime Minister Hara Kei. Mochizuki first joined the Cabinet under the Tanaka administration in 1927 as Minister of Communications. The following year, he was appointed Home Minister. [1]
Sankei-en was designed and built by Tomitaro Hara (原富太郎) (1868–1939), known by the pseudonym Sankei Hara, who was a silk trader. [1] Almost all of its buildings are historically significant structures bought by Hara himself in locations all over the country, among them Tokyo, Kyoto, Kamakura, Gifu Prefecture, and Wakayama Prefecture. [1]
The Fleet Faction (Japanese: 艦隊派, romanized: kantai-ha) was an informal political faction within the Imperial Japanese Navy active in the 1920s and 1930s. The kantai-ha sought to drastically increase the size of the Imperial Japanese Navy in order to reach force parity with the fleets of the United States Navy and Royal Navy in the Western Pacific Ocean.