Prince Katsura Tarō was a Japanese politician and general of the Imperial Japanese Army who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1901 to 1913.
Prince Itō Hirobumi was a Japanese politician and statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Japan. He was also a leading member of the genrō, a group of senior statesmen that dictated Japanese policy during the Meiji era. He was born as Hayashi Risuke, also known as Hirofumi, Hakubun, and briefly during his youth as Itō Shunsuke.
Marquess Ōkuma Shigenobu was a Japanese statesman and a prominent member of the Meiji oligarchy. He served as the second Prime Minister of the Empire of Japan in 1898 and from 1914 to 1916. Ōkuma was also an early advocate of Western science and culture in Japan, and founder of Waseda University. He is considered a centrist.
Yamamoto Gonbee, also called Gonnohyōe, was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and twice Prime Minister of Japan from 1913 to 1914 and again from 1923 to 1924.
GensuiCount Terauchi Masatake, GCB, was a Japanese military officer and politician. He was a Gensui in the Imperial Japanese Army and the Prime Minister of Japan from 1916 to 1918.
Lieutenant-General Mori Rintarō, known by his pen name Mori Ōgai, was a Japanese Army Surgeon general officer, translator, novelist, poet and father of famed author Mari Mori. He obtained his medical license at a very young age and introduced translated German language literary works to the Japanese public. Mori Ōgai also was considered the first to successfully express the art of western poetry in Japanese. He wrote many works and created many writing styles. The Wild Geese (1911–1913) is considered his major work. After his death, he was considered one of the leading writers who modernized Japanese literature.
Akiyama Saneyuki was a Meiji-period career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was famous as a planner of Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese general Akiyama Yoshifuru was his elder brother and the Japanese politician Hisako Ōishi was his granddaughter.
An institute of technology is an institution of tertiary education that specializes in engineering, technology, applied science, and natural sciences.
Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō was a Japanese samurai, politician, physicist, academic administrator, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. He served as president of Tokyo Imperial University, Kyushu Imperial University, and Kyoto Imperial University. He also served as a Privy Councilor and a member of the House of Peers. Though his name is commonly written "Yamakawa," he himself wrote it as "Yamagawa" in English.
William Elliot Griffis was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author.
Viscount Kodama Gentarō was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a government minister during the Meiji period. He was instrumental in establishing the modern Imperial Japanese military.
BaronYashiro Rokurō was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and Navy Minister, succeeding the last of the Satsuma-era naval leaders of the early Meiji period.
Admiral Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas, was a Royal Navy officer of the 19th century.
Shigeo Hirose is a pioneer of robotics technology and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Iwatsu Electric, Co., Ltd. TYO: 6704 is a Japanese electronics manufacturer founded 14 August 1938.
Vice Admiral Baron Yuzuru Hiraga was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Doctor of Engineering and head of the engineering school of Tokyo Imperial University and a leading Japanese naval architect in the 1910s and 1920s, responsible for designing a number of famous warships, many of which would later see action during World War II. He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology from 1941.
Kyoritsu Women's University is a private women's college in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, established in 1949.
Count Chinda Sutemi was a Japanese diplomat.
Ishibashi Hajime was a Japanese Vice-Admiral of the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. He primarily commanded the Matsushima, Takasago, and the America Maru throughout both wars and was the Chief Navigator of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Sōjirō Tochiuchi was a Japanese Admiral of the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. He commanded the Suma during the Battle of Tsushima and also a member of the House of Peers.
