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Matsui Keishirō (松井 慶四郎 , March 28, 1868-June 4, 1946) was a Japanese statesman and diplomat.
Biography
Matsui was a native of Osaka Prefecture, and a graduate of the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1889. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the same year. In 1890, he was assigned to the Japanese embassy in Seoul, Korea, and in 1895 was assigned to the Japanese embassy in the United States. In 1898, he was promoted to the position of First Secretary at the Japanese Embassy in London, United Kingdom. In 1902, he was re-assigned to the Japanese embassy in Beijing, China, returning to Japan in 1913.
During the First World War, served as Japanese Ambassador to France and was a plenipotentiary at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.[1][2] On the successful completion of this mission, he was awarded with the title of baron (danshaku) under the kazoku peerage system. He served as Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs from January 7 to June 11, 1924 under the administration of Kiyoura Keigo and was also appointed a member of the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan. He later served as Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1925-1928. In 1938, he became a member of the Privy Council.
References
- Phillips Payson O'Brien 2004. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-32611-7
For further reading
- Obituary in the New York Times
Political offices Preceded by
Ijiūn HikokichiMinister for Foreign Affairs
Jan 1924-Jun 1924Succeeded by
Kijūrō ShideharaForeign Ministers of Japan Inoue · Itō · Ōkuma (1st) · Aoki (1st) · Enomoto · Mutsu · Saionji (1st) · Ōkuma (2nd) · Nishi · Ōkuma (3rd) · Aoki (2nd) · Katō (1st) · Sone · Komura (1st) · Katō (2nd) · Saionji (2nd) · T. Hayashi · Terauchi (1st) · Komura (2nd) · Uchida (1st) · Katsura · Katō (3rd) · Makino · Katō (4th) · Ōkuma (4th) · Ishii · Terauchi (2nd) · Motono · Gotō · Uchida (2nd) · Yamamoto · Ijuin · Matsui · Shidehara (1st) · G. Tanaka · Shidehara (2nd) · Inukai · Yoshizawa · Uchida (4th) · Saitō · Hiroda · Arita · S. Hayashi · N. Satō · Hirota · Ugaki · Arita · N. Abe · K. Nomura · Arita · Matsuoka · Toyoda · S. Tōgō (1st) · Tōjō · Tani · Shigemitsu (1st) · S. Tōgō (2nd) · Shigemitsu (2nd) · K. Suzuki · Yoshida (1st) · Ashida · Yoshida (2nd) · Shigemitsu (3rd) · Kishi · Fujiyama · Kosaka · Ōhira · Shiina · Miki · Aichi · Fukuda · Ōhira · Kimura · Miyazawa · Kosaka · Hatoyama · Sonoda · Okita · M. Ito · Sonoda · Sakurauchi · S. Abe · Kuranari · Uno · Mitsuzuka · Nakayama · Watanabe · Mutō · Hata · Kakizawa · Kono (1st) · Ikeda · Obuchi · Kōmura (1st) · Kono (2nd) · M. Tanaka · Koizumi · Kawaguchi · Machimura (1st) · Aso · Machimura (2nd) · Kōmura (2nd) · Nakasone · Okada · Maehara · Matsumoto · Genba
Categories:- 1868 births
- 1946 deaths
- People from Osaka Prefecture
- University of Tokyo alumni
- Kazoku
- Japanese diplomats
- Ambassadors of Japan to the United Kingdom
- Ambassadors of Japan to France
- Ambassadors of Japan to China
- Foreign ministers of Japan
- Members of the House of Peers (Japan)
- Government ministers of Japan
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