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Toshisada Maeda
前田利定Born December 10, 1874
Tokyo, JapanDied October 2, 1944 (aged 69)
Tokyo, JapanNationality Japanese Occupation politician, cabinet minister In this Japanese name, the family name is "Maeda".Viscount Toshisada Maeda (前田利定 Maeda Toshisada , 10 December 1874 – 2 October 1944) was a politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan.
Biography
Toshisada Maeda was born in Tokyo, as the eldest son of Maeda Toshiaki, the final daimyō of Nanokaichi Domain in Kōzuke Province, and inherited his father’s kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount). His brother, Toshinari, was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army
Toshisada Maeda was a graduate of Tokyo Imperial University. He served briefly in the infantry during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, and afterwards assumed his family’s seat in the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan. In 1922, he was appointed Communications Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Katō Tomosaburō. He subsequently served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. He retired from public life in January 1944, and died in October of the same year. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasures, 1st class.
Maeda studied poetry under Sasaki Nobutsuna. His daughter married post-war Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki.
Political offices Preceded by
Okano KeijirōMinister of Agriculture & Commerce
Jan 1924 – Jun 1924Succeeded by
Takahashi KorekiyoPreceded by
Noda UtarōCommunications Minister
Jun 1922 – Sept 1923Succeeded by
Inukai TsuyoshiCategories:- 1874 births
- 1944 deaths
- University of Tokyo alumni
- Kazoku
- Members of the House of Peers (Japan)
- Maeda clan
- Government ministers of Japan
- Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure
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