Kuroda Kiyotaka

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黒田 清隆
President of the Privy Council
In office 17 March 1894 – 23 August 1900
Monarch	Meiji
Preceded by	Yamagata Aritomo
Succeeded by	Saionji Kinmochi
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 31 August 1896 – 18 September 1896 Acting
Monarch	Meiji
Preceded by	Itō Hirobumi
Succeeded by	Matsukata Masayoshi
In office 30 April 1888 – 25 October 1889
Monarch	Meiji
Preceded by	Itō Hirobumi
Succeeded by	Sanjō Sanetomi (Acting)
Personal details
Born	(1840-11-09)9 November 1840 Independent
Signature
Japanese name
Hiragana	くろだ きよたか
Kyūjitai	黑田 淸隆
Shinjitai	黒田 清隆
Transcriptions Romanization Kuroda Kiyotaka

Count Kuroda Kiyotaka (黒田 清隆, 9 November 1840 – 23 August 1900), also known as Kuroda Ryōsuke (黒田 了介), was a Japanese statesman and diplomat of the Meiji era who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889. He was also President of the Privy Council, Minister of Communications and Vice Chairman of the Hokkaido Development Commission (Kaitaku-shi). He was one of the initiators of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg in 1875.^[1]

Biography

As a Satsuma samurai

Kuroda was born to a

Returning to Satsuma, Kuroda became an active member of the Satsuma-Chōshū joint effort to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. Later, as a military leader in the Boshin War, he became famous for sparing the life of Enomoto Takeaki, who had stood against Kuroda's army at the Battle of Hakodate.

Political and diplomatic career

Under the new

Kuroda was dispatched as an envoy to Korea in 1875, and negotiated the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876. In 1877, he was sent as part of the force to suppress the Satsuma Rebellion. In 1878, he became de facto leader of Satsuma Domain following the assassination of Ōkubo Toshimichi.

Shortly before he left office in Hokkaidō, Kuroda became the central figure in the Hokkaidō Colonization Office Scandal of 1881. As part of the government's privatization program, Kuroda attempted to sell the assets of the Hokkaidō Colonization Office to a trading consortium created by some of his former Satsuma colleagues for a nominal price. When the terms of the sale were leaked to the press, the resultant public outrage caused the sale to fall through. Also in 1881, Kuroda's wife died of a

In 1887, Kuroda was appointed to the cabinet post of Minister of Agriculture and Commerce.

Prime minister

Kuroda Kiyotaka became the 2nd

Later life

Kuroda served as

Kuroda died of a

• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2 November 1877)
• Count (7 July 1884)
• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers (20 August 1895)
• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum (25 August 1900; posthumous)

See also

• List of Ambassadors from Japan to South Korea

References

Further reading

• ISBN 978-0-674-01521-0; OCLC 56493769
• ISBN 9780674003347; OCLC 44090600
• ISBN 978-0-231-12340-2; OCLC 46731178
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge:
  ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
• Sims, Richard L. (2001). Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868–2000. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  ISBN 9780312239152; OCLC 45172740

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