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Kijuro Shidehara was born in a wealthy farmer’s family in Matta-gun, Sakaiken (current Kadoma City) of Osaka on 11 August 1872. After graduating from the Imperial University of Tokyo with a law degree, Shidehara entered the Agriculture Ministry in 1895, and transferred to the Foreign Ministry in the following year.
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Akimoto, D. (2022). Kijuro Shidehara: An Internationalist Who Embraced the Peace Clause. In: Japanese Prime Ministers and Their Peace Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8379-4_4
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