Yukio Ozaki collection. [1920-1933].

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Yukio Ozaki collection. [1920-1933].

The collection consists of a 325 page carbon typescript autobiography (with 25 pages of endnotes) in translation. Personal and political reminiscences and observations covering childhood, period as a newspaper editor in Meiji (1879); Mayor of Tokyo, and political and parliamentary activities. The original text was written in 1920, and the translation, possibly edited by John Soffell, perhaps in the 1930's.

2 cm of textual records.

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Ozaki, Yukio, 1858-1954

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A democratic politician who was elected to the Japanese House of Representatives a total of 25 times and is considered the "father of parliamentary politics" in that country. Originally a journalist, Ozaki joined the government of Okuma Shigenobu. When Okuma resigned in 1881 owing to the cabinet's failure to adopt his radical proposals for the creation of a new constitution, Ozaki followed him into opposition. In 1898 Ozaki was back in the government, as education minister in the new, and short-...