Konoe Atsumaro

Duke Konoe Atsumaro was a Japanese politician and journalist of the Meiji era. He served as the 3rd President of the House of Peers and 7th President of the Gakushin Peers School in Meiji period Japan. He was also the father of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe.

Konoe was born in Kyoto as the heir to the highly ranked Konoe family of Court nobility, one of the Five regent houses of the Fujiwara clan. His father Konoe Tadafusa died when he was young, so he was raised by his grandfather Konoe Tadahiro. His mother was a daughter of Shimazu Nariakira. Of fragile health, he had problems staying in university, but managed to teach himself English on his own.

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