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Takahira, Baron Kanda
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31 October 1830 - 5 July 1898
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Kanda Takahira (?? ???, 31 October 1830 - 5 July 1898) was a scholar and statesman in Meiji period Japan. He often used the pen-name Kanda K?hei.
Kanda was born in the Fuwa District of Mino Province, (present-day Gifu Prefecture). He studied rangaku and became a teacher at the Tokugawa bakufu's Bansho Shirabesho institute for researching western science and technology.
After the Meiji Restoration, Kanda was appointed governor of Hy?go Prefecture, and also worked for the new Meiji government
as an advisor on economics and governmental structures, and was
responsible for developing and implementing the Land Tax Reforms of
1873-1881, and for establishing local administration structures. He was
appointed to the House of Peers in 1890.
His translation of William Ellis's Outlines of Social Economy in 1867 is regarded as Japan
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Created 2015-10-29 by Anna St.Onge.