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Shigetake (Jugo) Sugiura

1855–1924

Japanese educator and journalist. Studied at the Daigaku Nanko (later the University of Tokyo) and Tokyo Kaisei School. Selected to study abroad; studied agricultural science at Owens College (later the University of Manchester) and chemistry at London University, 1876. Director of the preparatory school of the University of Tokyo, 1882–5. Later established the nationalist organisation Seikyosha and published a nationalist journal.

Sources

Large 1992, pp. 17–18

Portraits of modern Japanese historical figures, National Diet Library, Tokyo, https://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/112.html (accessed 7 June 2019)

Bibliography

Large, Stephen S. 1992. Emperor Hirohito and Shōwa Japan: a political biography. London: Routledge.

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