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Kanda Takahira (神田 孝平, 31 October 1830 – 5 July 1898) was a scholar and statesman in Meiji period Japan. He often used the pen-name Kanda Kōhei.
Kanda Takahira | |
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神田 孝平 | |
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1st Governor of Hyōgo Prefecture | |
In office November 20, 1871 – September 3, 1879 | |
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Born | October 31, 1830![]() |
Died | July 5, 1898 67) | (aged
Kanda was born in the Fuwa District of Mino Province, (present-day Gifu Prefecture). He studied rangaku and became a teacher at the Tokugawa bakufu's Bansho Shirabesho institute for researching western science and technology.
After the Meiji Restoration, Kanda was appointed governor of Hyōgo Prefecture, and also worked for the new Meiji government as an advisor on economics and governmental structures, and was responsible for developing and implementing the Land Tax Reforms of 1873–1881, and for establishing local administration structures. He was appointed to the House of Peers in 1890.
His translation of William Ellis's Outlines of Social Economy in 1867 is regarded as Japan's earliest study of western economics.
He served in the Genroin, and was afterwards appointed to the House of Peers. He was ennobled with the title of danshaku (baron) in the kazoku peerage system.
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