Kiuchi Jūshirō

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Kiuchi Jūshirō (木内 重四郎, Kiuchi Jūshirō^? 26 January 1866 - 9 January 1925) was a Japanese politician. He was educated at Chiba Middle School and Chiba First High School,^{[citation needed]} and later graduated from Imperial Tokyo University's Department of Political Science.^[1] In 1906, while serving as a Japanese representative in Korea, Kiuchi made a bet with Durham Stevens, an American advisor to the Korean government, about the length of time before Japan would annex Korea. Kiuchi expected it would only take three years; Stevens' guess of five years would prove to be more nearly correct, as the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty was signed in mid-1910.^[2] In January 1909, Kiuchi was one of a number of politicians who brought pressure to bear against Itō Hirobumi and his allegedly soft policies towards Korea, urging that Japan should exercise direct rule there; it was suggested that Kiuchi took this position due to his dissatisfaction with being shifted from Vice-Minister of Home Affairs to Vice-Minister of Agriculture.^[3] He later served as a member of the House of Peers and then from 1916-1918 as governor of Kyoto Prefecture.^[4]

Kiuchi's former residence, located in Ichikawa, Chiba, was maintained as a historical building and tourist attraction for some years, but was being considered for dismantling as of 2001.^[5]

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• Duus, Peter (1995). The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. University of California Press, p. 201. ISBN 0520213610. 
• Fujiya, Y.; Nakata M.; Onda T. (July 2001). "Emergency survey on dismantling of former residence of Kiuchi Jushiro in the hells of Kounodai, Ichikawa City". Journal of Architecture and Building Science 116 (1474): 243-8. ISSN 0003-8555. 
• 市川市木内ギャラリー (Ichikawa City's Kiuchi Gallery). Municipal Government of Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Retrieved on 2007-08-15.