Kagenori Ueno
上野 景範
BornJanuary 8, 1845 (1845-01-08)
DiedApril 11, 1888 (1888-04-12) (aged 43)

Kagenori Ueno (上野 景範, Ueno Kagenori, January 8, 1845 April 11, 1888) was Japanese Consul in Great Britain from 1874 to 1879. He spoke English and Dutch, which he learned in Kagoshima.[1]

In 1875 was involved in negotiations with the Ottoman Ambassador to London about the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations between the Turkish and the Japanese governments.[2]

References

  1. Yamaji Aizan (2000). The Awakening of the Japanese People I. Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan. University of Michigan Press. pp. 47–51. doi:10.3998/mpub.22854. ISBN 9780939512935. JSTOR 10.3998/mpub.22854. Ueno Kagenori (1844-88) studied English and Dutch in his native Kagoshima before the Restoration, and in the early Meiji period he worked as a senior foreign ministry official and diplomat.
  2. Nobuo Misawa (March 2009). "The Influence of the Ottoman Print Media in Japan: The Linkage of Intellectuals in the Eurasian World" (PDF). Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies (2): 36–42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-03-23.


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