The House of Peers (貴族院, Kizoku-in) was the upper house of the Imperial Diet as mandated under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan (in effect from...
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1848 House of Peers (Japan) from 1889 to 1947 Chamber of Most Worthy Peers (Portugal) from 1826–1838 and again from 1842–1910 Chamber of Peers (Spain)...
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Chamber of Peers (France) Chamber of Most Worthy Peers (Portugal) Chamber of Peers (Spain) Chamber of Princes (British India) House of Peers (Japan) Genrōin...
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Peerage (section Lists of peers)
Peerage of the Empire of Japan House of Peers (Japan) Chamber of Most Worthy Peers Chamber of Peers (Spain) List of dukes in the peerage of Spain List of viscounts...
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Iemasa Tokugawa (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
President of the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan. Iemasa Tokugawa was born in what is now the Sendagaya district of Tokyo, as the eldest son of Tokugawa...
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Tokugawa Iesato (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
title of kōshaku (公爵, prince or duke) in the newly-created kazoku peerage system. He became a member of the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan from its...
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Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
the Gakushūin Peers' School, and serving for a session in the House of Peers, he graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in...
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Shimazu Tadashige (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Katori. From 1911-1913, he left active service to assume his seat in the House of Peers, returning in December 1914 to the battleship Settsu after having completed...
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Konoe Atsumaro (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Japanese politician and journalist of the Meiji era. He served as the 3rd President of the House of Peers and 7th President of the Gakushūin Peer's School...
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744944 The House of Representatives (衆議院, Shūgiin) is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house. The composition...
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Mōri Gorō (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Economics, and became a director of the 110th Bank among other posts before becoming a member of the House of Peers (Kizokuin). The funds for Mōri Gorō's...
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Takahashi Korekiyo (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
He was also a member of the House of Peers and head of the Bank of Japan. Takahashi made many contributions to Japan's development during the early 20th...
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Fumimaro Konoe (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Konoe took up his father's seat in the House of Peers of the Imperial Diet in 1916. He was a member of the Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference...
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Yamamoto Tatsuo (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
November 2, 1947) was a Japanese politician and Governor of the Bank of Japan from 1898 to 1903. He was also a member of the House of Peers and served as a cabinet...
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Shō Shō (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
"Imperial Council Proceedings" 44th Parliament House of Peers House of Councilors "Transfiguration of the House of Representatives". 『官報』第3270号、「帝国議会」1923年06月25日。"Official...
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Saionji Kinmochi (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Returning to Japan, Saionji joined the Privy Council, and served as vice president of the House of Peers. He also served as Minister of Education in the...
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Uchida Kōsai (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Kantō earthquake. He was appointed to the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan in 1930, and became President of the South Manchuria Railway company in 1931...
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Kuniyuki Tokugawa (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
head of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa clan and the President of the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan. Kuniyuki Tokugawa inherited the title of shishaku...
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Shō Ten (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
and ritual, and adopted those of the Japanese peerage. As Marquess, Shō held a hereditary seat in the House of Peers in the Imperial Diet. He was joined...
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Nobuyuki Abe (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
remained as the Japanese ambassador to China in Nanjing until December 1940. After his return to Japan, Abe joined the House of Peers in 1942, and accepted...
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Nitobe Inazō (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
After his retirement from the League of Nations, Nitobe briefly served in the House of Peers in the Japanese Imperial Parliament; and he delivered a...
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Prince Tsunehisa Takeda (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Yoshihisa and thus the brother of Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa. He was born in Kyoto in 1882. In 1902, he served in the House of Peers, and on November 30, 1903...
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Kiyoura Keigo (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
the Ministry of Justice, he helped draft the Peace Preservation Law of 1887. In 1891, he was selected as a member of the House of Peers by Imperial nomination...
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Matsukata Masayoshi (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
councillor, gijokan, member of the House of Peers, and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan. Later, he was given the title of prince and genrō. In 1902...
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Jirō Minami (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Korea, Minami served as a member of the Privy Council from 1942 to 1945 and had a seat in the House of Peers in the Japanese Diet in 1945. After World War...
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Koizumi Matajirō (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
Kuniaki Koiso. He was selected to be a member of the House of Peers, but in 1946, under the occupation of Japan, he was purged from public office. He died...
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Tanaka Giichi (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
to accept the post of party president of the Rikken Seiyūkai political party in 1925 and was made a member of the House of Peers from January 1926. He...
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Naoki Hoshino (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
economic reorganization of Japan under the Taisei Yokusankai in the second Konoe Cabinet. In 1941, he became a member of the House of Peers and at the same year...
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Kuroda Seiki (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
death of his father, Kuroda inherited the kazoku peerage title of viscount, and in 1920, was elected to a seat in the House of Peers, the upper house of the...
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Kawasaki Shōzō (category Members of the House of Peers (Japan))
August 10, 1837 – December 2, 1912) was a Japanese industrialist and shipbuilder. He was the founder of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Born in Kagoshima...
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