Sone Arasuke
Viscount Sone Arasuke 曾禰 荒助 | |
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Resident-General of Korea |
Resident-General of Korea
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Biography
Sone was born in
Yamaguchi prefecture, his adopted father was a samurai from Hagi. He fought on the imperial side in the Boshin War
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After the
Diet of Japan
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Sone was elected to the House of Representatives in the
unequal treaties
between France and Japan.
He served successively in a number of cabinet posts: Minister of Justice in the third Itō administration, Agriculture and Commerce Minister in the second Yamagata administration, Finance Minister in the first Katsura administration and other posts.
During the
Privy Councillor in 1906, and elevated in status to viscount
(shishaku) the following year.
Sone was appointed as Vice Resident-General of the Japanese administration in
Resident-General of Korea in 1909, replacing Itō Hirobumi. One of his major actions in Korea was to install a peninsula-wide telephone network, linking government offices, police stations and military installations throughout Korea.[2] Sone was opposed to the Japanese annexation of Korea, but was forced to resign from his post in May 1910 due to illness and died a few months later.[3]
References
- Beasley, W.G. Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822168-1
- Duus, Peter. The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (Twentieth-Century Japan - the Emergence of a World Power. University of California Press (1998). ISBN 0-520-21361-0.
- Keane, Donald. Emperor Of Japan: Meiji And His World, 1852-1912. Columbia University Press (2005). ISBN 0-231-12341-8
- ISBN 0-8108-4927-5.
- Sims, Richard. French Policy Towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan 1854-1894. RoutledgeCurzon (1998). ISBN 1-873410-61-1
External links
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Notes
- ^ Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 357.
- ISBN 978-0674010918. page 45
- ISBN 0-8108-4927-5. page 80
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