11 Facts About Kiyoura Keigo

Kiyoura Keigo was the Prime Minister of Japan in 1924, during the period which historians have called the "Taisho Democracy".

Kiyoura Keigo studied at the private school of Hirose Tanso from 1865 to 1871.

In 1876, at the age of twenty-six, Kiyoura Keigo joined the Ministry of Justice, and served as a prosecutor and helping draft Japan's first modern Criminal procedures laws.

Kiyoura Keigo went on to serve as Vice Minister of Justice, and Minister of Justice and while at the Ministry of Justice, he helped draft the Peace Preservation Law of 1887.

In 1902, Kiyoura Keigo was elevated to the title of baron in the kazoku peerage system.

Kiyoura Keigo received the 1st class of the Order of the Sacred Treasures the following year, and in 1906 was awarded with the 1st class of the Order of the Rising Sun.

In 1914, when Kiyoura Keigo was a Privy Councillor, he received an imperial order appointing him Prime Minister of Japan following Yamamoto Gonnohyoe.

However, Kiyoura Keigo declined the post because of the controversy involving the ongoing Siemens scandal and Okuma Shigenobu was chosen to become prime minister instead.

Kiyoura Keigo accepted a second imperial order in 1924 following the Toranomon Incident, and became Prime Minister of Japan.

In November 1928, Kiyoura Keigo was elevated to the title of Count.

Kiyoura Keigo was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum in 1942.