Katsura Tarō
Katsura Tarō (4 January 1848 – 10 October 1913) was a Japanese politician and general of the Imperial Japanese Army who served as the Prime Minister of Japan on three separate occasions from 1901 to 1913.
Katsura was a distinguished general of the First Sino-Japanese War and a genrō of the Meiji government who served as Governor-General of Taiwan and Minister of War. Katsura was appointed Prime Minister in 1901 as a military candidate and positioned himself as a conservative outside party politics. Katsura's first and second premierships oversaw several major events in modern Japanese history, including the Russo-Japanese War and the annexation of Korea. Katsura's third premiership triggered the Taisho Political Crisis, and he resigned three months later after a vote of no confidence.
He also founded the Rikken Dōshikai party in 1913.[1]
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Quotes
[edit]- We must rely on education to nurture the peoples values, and we must devise a social policy that will assist their industry, provide them work, help the aged and infirm, and thereby prevent catastrophe.
- As quoted from: Gyu-Jin Hwang, "Building Markets Distributional Consequences of Social Policy in East Asia" (2022), p.11
