Word: kiyoura
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urged the Government's closest attention to the situation. The Premier, Viscount Kiyoura, replied that the situation was being "closely watched...
Following the recent attempt on the life of Prince Regent Hirohito and the resignation of the Yamamoto Cabinet (TIME, Jan. 7), Viscount Kiego Kiyoura consented, after some hesitation, to form a new cabinet. Said he: "It is because I am a loyal subject of the Emperor of Japan that I cannot refuse to make an attempt to form a Cabinet in these most difficult times for the Empire...
Premier: Viscount Kiego Kiyoura, aged 73, who started his career as a school teacher, accepted a Government clerkship, became successively head of several important Government departments. In 1902 he received a barony for his services in promoting the Anglo-Japanese treaty. Since 1917 he has been a Viscount and head of the Privy Council...
...them are new left, and the gap left by the death of the Empire's two greatest is almost beyond repair. General Tanaka, the logical successor to Prince Yamagata as military leader, cannot represent the Choshn clan, which has traditionally supplied leaders of the military party. Viscount Kiyoura has succeeded the late Prince as President of the Privy Council, but he can never succeed to his hold on the destinies of the nation...