Soejima Taneomi
Soejima Taneomi | |
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Saga, Japan | |
| Died | January 31, 1905 (aged 76) Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation(s) | Diplomat, Politician |
Meiji period Japan.
Life and career
Soejima was born into a Tokugawa bakufu.
After the
indentured laborers on a Peruvian ship. Soejima was praised by the Chinese government
over his handling of the affair.
In 1871, he was sent to Siberia to adjust boundary questions relating to the island of Sakhalin.[1] In 1873, Soejima led a mission to
diplomatic relations
between Japan and China.
After the return of the Iwakura Mission and the rejection of the Aikoku Koto political party. On a visit to China in 1876, he was received with high honors by the mandarins by reason of his scholarship, and he became private adviser of the emperor.[1]
Soejima returned to government service in 1878, serving in the
Home Minister in the first Matsukata administration
.
Notes
- ^ a b c Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
References
- Akamatsu, Paul. (1972). Meiji 1868: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Japan. Trans. Miriam Kochan. New York: Harper & Row.
- ISBN 9780804708159; OCLC 579232
- Duus, Peter. (1998). The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895–1910. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21361-0.
- ISBN 9780691054599; OCLC 12311985
- Ohashi, Akio. (1990). Soejima Taneomi. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Oraisha. ISBN 4-404-01739-1(in Japanese)
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