Kuroda Kiyotaka
Kuroda Kiyotaka | |
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| Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 31 August 1896 – 18 September 1896 Acting | |
| Monarch | Meiji |
| Preceded by | Itō Hirobumi |
| Succeeded by | Matsukata Masayoshi |
| In office 30 April 1888 – 25 October 1889 | |
| Monarch | Meiji |
| Preceded by | Itō Hirobumi |
| Succeeded by | Sanjō Sanetomi (Acting) |
| President of the Privy Council | |
| In office 17 March 1894 – 23 August 1900 | |
| Monarch | Meiji |
| Preceded by | Yamagata Aritomo |
| Succeeded by | Saionji Kinmochi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 9, 1840 Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain (now Kagoshima, Japan) |
| Died | August 23, 1900 (aged 59) Tokyo, Japan |
| Political party | Independent |
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Kuroda Kiyotaka (9 November 1840 – 23 August 1900), also known as Kuroda Ryōsuke was a Japanese statesman and leader, who is the 2nd Prime Minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889 and President of the Privy Council from 1894 to 1900.
He was born in 1840 in Satsuma (present-day Kagoshima Prefecture), Japan, and was educated in traditional Confucian philosophy and Japanese literature.
