Fusanosuke Kuhara

Fusanosuke Kuhara was an entrepreneur, syndicalist, politician and cabinet minister in the prewar Empire of Japan.

Kuhara was born in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture into a family of sake brewers. His brother was the founder of Nippon Suisan Kaisha and his uncle Fujita Densabur was the founder of the Fujita zaibatsu. He studied in 1885 at the Tokyo Commercial School and went on to graduate from Keio University. After graduation, he joined the Morimuragumi, but on the recommendation of exChsh politicians Inoue Kaoru, he joined his uncles company, the Fujitagumi, and in 1891 was assigned management of the Kosaka mine in Kosaka, Akita, one of the largest lead, copper and zinc mines in Japan. He introduced new technologies and made the mine very profitable.

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