- Uchida Kosai
Count nihongo|Kosai Uchida|内田 康哉|Uchida Kōsai (
17 November 1865 -12 March 1936 ) was a Japanese statesman and diplomat. He was also known as Uchida Yasuya.Born in what is now
Yatsushiro ,Kumamoto Prefecture , as the son of the domain's doctor, Uchida was a graduate ofTokyo Imperial University . He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and served as minister toQing dynasty China , then as ambassador toAustria-Hungary , and then to theUnited States . He served as Japanese foreign minister from 1911 to 1912 under the 2ndSaionji Kinmochi administration.Appointed as ambassador to
Russia just before theBolshevik Revolution , he returned to Japan to serve as Foreign Minister again from 1918 to 1923 under the Hara, Takahashi, and Kato administrations. He served as actingPrime Minister of Japan twice – once after the assassination of Prime Minister Hara, and again after the sudden death of Prime Minister Kato, immediately before theGreat Kanto Earthquake .He was appointed to the
House of Peers in 1930, and became President of theSouthern Manchuria Railway Company in 1931.Under his third term as Foreign Minister, from 1932 to 1933, during the
Saito Makoto administration, he called for the formal diplomatic recognition ofManchukuo , and later called for Japan's withdrawal from theLeague of Nations . He died of illness 15 days after theFebruary 26 Incident .References
* Beasley, W.G. "Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945".
Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-822168-1
* Gulik, Carol. "Showa: The Japan of Hirohito".W. W. Norton & Company ; Reprint edition (August 1993). ISBN 0-393-31064-7
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