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Suematsu Kenchō
Viscount was a Japanese politician, intellectual and author, who lived in the Meiji and Taishō periods. Apart from his activity in the Japanese government, he also wrote several important works on Japan in English. He was portrayed in a negative manner in Ryōtarō Shiba's novel ''Saka no ue no kumo''.
==Early life==
Suematsu was born in the hamlet of Maeda in Buzen Province, now part of Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture. He was the fourth son of the village headman (''shōya''), Suematsu Shichiemon. His name was initially , he later changed it to the shorter Kenchō.〔(NCBank biographical timeline of Suematsu's life )〕
At the age of ten he enrolled in a private school where he pursued studies in Chinese (''kangaku'' 漢学).〔(Yukuhashi City webpage about Suematsu )〕 Suematsu went to Tokyo in 1871, and studied with Ōtsuki Bankei and Kondō Makoto. In 1872, he briefly entered the Tokyo Normal School, but left it soon after. It was around this time that he made the acquaintance of Takahashi Korekiyo.〔
In 1874, at age 20, Suematsu began working for the ''Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun'' newspaper (predecessor to the Mainichi Shinbun), writing editorials under the pen name Sasanami Hitsuichi (笹波篳一).〔 During his time working for the newspaper, he was befriended by its editor, Fukuchi Gen'ichirō.
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