Magoichi Tawara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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politician in the Empire of Japan
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Place of Birth: Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
About Magoichi Tawara
- Magoichi Tawara (? ??, Tawara Magoichi, 16 June 1869 – 17 June 1944) was a bureaucrat, politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan. Tawara was born in what is now part of the city of Hamada in Shimane Prefecture Japan.
- The Tawara family had been making soy sauce and candles in Hamada for generations.
- He graduated from the law department of Tokyo Imperial University in 1895, and became an official in the Home Ministry.
- He worked as an official in four different prefectural governments over the next eleven years.
- His first was Okinawa, where he was instrumental in writing laws on land reform and establishing a tax system, bringing the former Kingdom of the Ryukyus closer to legal assimilation with mainland Japan.
- In January 1906 he was transferred to a position in the newly created Regency General of Korea.
- Resident-General of Korea.
- In April he was assigned to oversee the Korean Education Ministry.
- In August 1907 he was named Vice-Minister of Education.
- He subsequently assisted in the first land survey of Korea under Japanese rule in 1910.
- After returning to Japan, he was appointed as Governor of Mie Prefecture (1912–1914), Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (1914–1915), Governor of Hokkaido (1915–1919), and served as a senior official within the Ministry of Colonial Affairs.
- Tawara was elected to the Lower House of the Diet of Japan in the 1924 General Election, under the Kenseikai banner.
- He later changed his political party affiliation to the Rikken Minseito, and was reelected for six terms.
- He served as Secretary-General of the party in 1929. In 1929, Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi picked Tawara as Minister of Commerce and Industry.
- After his term expired in April 1931, he continued to play an important role in the Diet and in the general administration of the Rikken Minseito.
- As with all other Japanese politicians, Tawara was forced to join the Taisei Yokusankai created by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe in 1940.
- However, Tawara was defeated in the 1942 General Election and retired from public life.
- He died in 1944 at the age of 77.
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