Word: kato
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, Premier of Japan, died from heart trouble at his residence in Tokyo...
Tomasaburo Kato was born at Hiroshima in 1861. He was not of noble birth, having been raised to a barony in 1920. In his extreme youth he lost his father and was brought up by an elder brother, who later became a soldier. Baron Kato's life was identified with the Navy from an early age; at the time of the Russo-Japanese War he was 43. He was known to be a competent officer in a wide sense of the term; his painstaking knowledge gave him an uncanny grasp of naval affairs and won him the position...
Nichi Nichi: " It would have been better if Baron Kato had not accepted the Premiership, in which he was a disappointment...
...resignation of Premier Baron Takahashi in 1922, Baron Kato (then Minister of Marine) took on the Premiership in addition to his own portfolio. Recently he appointed Admiral Takarabe to be Minister of Marine, thus leaving himself with the Premiership only. His administration is considered to have been particularly successful in its foreign policy, but the part he played in agreeing to a reduction in naval armaments at Washington cost him a good deal of popularity in his own country...
...seems, however, that his statesmanship at Washington won him universal respect, for when Baron Takahashi resigned there was no hesitation, it is said, in appointing Kato Prime Minister...