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Prince Saionji Kinmochi (西園寺 公望, 7 December 1849 – 24 November 1940) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1906 to 1908, and from 1911 to 1912. As the last surviving member of the genrō , the group of senior statesmen who had directed policy during the Meiji era , he was one of the most influential ...
Prince Saionji Kinmochi: last survivor of ancient Genro group, related with Sumitomo Zaibatsu Clan; Akira Kazami: Ministry of Justice; Baron Hiranuma Kiichirō: Radical thinker, Home Minister; Masatsune Ogura: Director of Sumitomo Empress and Finance Minister; Chikao Fujisawa: member of Diet, supporte of State Shinto laws
Saionji (西園寺) is a Japanese family name of former kuge descent. People with the name include: The Saionji family, kuge family. Prince Saionji Kinmochi, 12th and 14th Prime Minister of Japan; Empress Saionji, wife of Emperor Go-Fukakusa
They applied pressure to have the oldest diplomat in Japan, Prince Saionji, nominated to the Inukai. In the wake of the electoral triumph a wave of political assassinations plagued the nation, aimed largely at ministers still in the cabinet who displayed some independence.
Saionji Kintsune (西園寺公経, 1171 – 1244) was a waka poet and Japanese nobleman active in the early Kamakura period. He is designated as a member of the New Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry ( 新三十六歌仙 , Shin Sanjūrokkasen ) .
In 1911, Japan ended all unequal treaties. The Meiji period ended with the death of the Emperor Meiji in 1912 and the beginning of the Taishō era (1912–1926) as Crown Prince Yoshihito became the new emperor (Emperor Taishō). The end of the Meiji era was marked by huge government domestic and overseas investments and military programs ...
With the exception of Saionji Kinmochi, all the genrō were from medium or lower ranking samurai families, four each from Satsuma and Chōshū, the two former domains that had been instrumental in the overthrow of the former Tokugawa shogunate in the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration of 1867–1868.
Second Saionji Cabinet The Second Katsura Cabinet (Japanese: 第2次桂内閣) is the 13th Cabinet of Japan led by Katsura Tarō from July 14, 1908, to August 30, 1911. Cabinet