Kinpei Matsuoka

Kinpei Matsuoka (松岡 均平, Matsuoka Kinpei, November 28, 1876- June 10, 1960) was a member of the Japanese House of Peers and a Professor of Law at Tokyo Imperial University. Matsuoka succeeded his father as baron (danshaku) in the kazoku peerage upon his father's passing in 1923.[1].

Matsuoka Kinpei
松岡 均平
Born(1876-11-28)November 28, 1876
Tokyo, Japan
DiedJune 10, 1960(1960-06-10) (aged 83)
NationalityJapanese
Occupationpolitician, professor

Biography

Born in Tokyo on 28 November, 1876, the son of Baron Matsuoka Yasutake, Kinpei graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, Department of Political Science in 1900[2]. Commissioned by the Ministry of Education in 1902 he became an assistant professor at Imperial University in 1903. As an associate professor, he studies economics abroad in Europe and the United States in 1909, returning to Japan in 1910 upon appointment as a law professor at Tokyo Imperial University. From 1911-1921, he served as a Director at Prince Fumimaro Konoe's East Asia Economic Research Center (Toa Keizai Chosakyoku)[3]. In 1922 he joined Takushoku University as an Academic Supervisor, resigning in 1924 as he succeeded his father as Baron and served in the House of Peers until May 1947[4]. The Japan Academy recognized Matsuoka for his academic achievements with the Gomontsuki Ginkabin in 1945.

Matsuoka married the former Nishikawa Yuka and had 3 children, son Yasumitsu, who would go on to be a professor at Nihon University, and two daughters[5]

References
  1. Japan Biographical Encyclopedia. Japan Times. 1938.
  2. Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku Calendar 2563-64. Z.P. Maruya & Co. 1904.
  3. Tanaka, Stefan (1995). Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History. University of California Press.
  4. Kasumikai Kaikei Taisei Compilation Committee, Volume II. Kasumikaikan. 1996.
  5. 平成新修旧華族家系大成. p. 574.
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