Keijiro Okano

Japanese: 岡野敬次郎 - おかの・けいじろう

Year of death: December 22, 1925
Year of birth: September 21, 1865 (November 9, 1865)
A commercial law scholar and politician from the Meiji and Taisho periods. Born in Gunma Prefecture. His father was Okano Chikami. He graduated from the Imperial University's law department in 1886, where he became an assistant professor and in 1893 he taught commercial law as a professor. During that time he studied in Germany and other countries from 1891 to 1893, where he was taught by Gierke. As a member of the Code Compilation Committee, he contributed to the drafting of the Commercial Code (promulgated in 1899) along with Ume Kenjiro and Tabe Yoshi. In 1906 he was a founding committee member of the South Manchuria Railway. He was Director-General of the Legislative Bureau from 1906 to 1909 and from 1913 to 1922, and an Imperially appointed member of the House of Peers from 1908 to 1925. He was Chief Justice of the Administrative Court from 1913. As Minister of Justice in the Kato Tomosaburo cabinet from 1916 to 1919, he enacted the Jury Act, and at the end of that cabinet in 1919 he was considered one of the leading candidates to become the next Prime Minister. He was Minister of Education and Minister of Agriculture and Commerce from 1919 to 1921, and Vice President of the Privy Council in 1922. He worked hard to promote Chuo University to a university status and served as its president.

(Ryuichi Nagao)

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没年：大正14.12.22(1925)
生年：慶応1.9.21(1865.11.9)
明治大正期の商法学者,政治家。群馬県出身。父は岡野親美。明治19(1886)年帝大法科卒,同助教授,28年教授として商法を担当。その間24～28年ドイツなどに留学し,ギールケの指導を受ける。法典編纂委員として,梅謙次郎,田部芳と共に商法典(1899年公布)の起草に貢献。39年南満州鉄道創立委員。39～41年,44～大正2(1913)年法制局長官,明治41～大正14年貴族院勅選議員。大正2年より行政裁判所長官。11～12年加藤友三郎内閣の司法大臣として陪審法を成立させ,12年同内閣の末期には,有力な次期首班候補のひとりとされた。12～13年文相,農商務相,14年枢密院副議長。中央大の大学昇格に尽力し,その学長を務めた。<著作>『日本手形法』『会社法』

(長尾龍一)

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