Suematsu Kenchō
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Viscount Suematsu Kenchō was a Japanese politician, intellectual and author who lived in the Meiji and Taishō periods. Apart from his activity in the Japanese government, he also wrote several importa
Suematsu Kenchō c. 1898
Ryōtarō Shiba
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Teiichi Fukuda, also known as Ryōtarō Shiba, was a Japanese author. He is best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub-continent, as well as his historical
Suematsu Kenchō
…Apart from his activity in the Japanese government, he also wrote several important works on Japan in English. He was portrayed in a negative manner in Ryōtarō Shiba's novel Saka no Ue no Kumo. Suematsu was born in the hamlet of Maeda in Buzen Province, now part of Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture. He was the fourth…
Ryōtarō Shiba in 1964