Baron studied at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

 from 1903 to 1906 but he did not graduate from Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

. He was a son of Okura Kihachiro

Okura Kihachiro

Baron was an entrepreneur who built up the Ōkura-gumi and founded the giant Ōkura zaibatsu and the Ōkura Shōgyō Gakkō which later became Tokyo Keizai University in 1949....

 (1837-1928) who as an entrepreneur built up the Okura-gumi and founded the giant Okura

Okura

The is, along with the Izumi school and Sagi schools, one of a school of kyogen. Kyogen of Ōkura school uses an older form of Japanese language than does Izumi. Their kyogen preserves the sarugaku tradition.-References:* *...

 zaibatsu

Zaibatsu

is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.-Terminology:...

 (family trust) and the Okura Shogyo Gakko which later became Tokyo Keizai University

Tokyo Keizai University

is a private university in Tokyo, Japan. It has campuses at the cities of Kokubunji and Musashimurayama. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1900, and it was chartered as a university in 1949.-External links:*...

 (Tokyo University of Economics) in 1949.

Okura competed in the first ever car race held at Brooklands

Brooklands

Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England. It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue, as well as one of Britain's first airfields...

 in Surrey

Surrey

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 on July 6, 1907 and came second. He is one of the pioneers who introduced the motor car to Japan. He was the President of the Imperial Hotel, and the Okura luxury hotel chain is still an important one in Japan today.

Okura Kishichiro was a primary patron in the establishment of the Nihon Ki-in

Nihon Ki-in

The Nihon Ki-in , also known as the Japan Go Association, is the main organizational body for Go in Japan, overseeing Japan's professional system and issuing diplomas for amateur dan rankings. It is based in Tokyo. The other major Go association in Japan is Kansai Ki-in.Nihon Ki-in was established...

 or Japanese Go Association in 1924, organizing and supporting professional go players in Japan following the Meiji Restoration

Meiji Restoration

The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, Reform or Renewal, was a chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868...

 and subsequent ceasing of government support for the four go houses

Four go houses

In the history of go in Japan, the Four go houses were the four academies of Go instituted, supported, and controlled by the state, at the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate. At roughly the same time shogi was organised into three houses. Here 'house' implies institution run on the recognised...

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See also

• Suematsu Kenchō
  Suematsu Kencho
  Viscount was a Japanese politician, intellectual and author, who lived in the Meiji and Taishō periods. Apart from his activity in the Japanese government, he also wrote several important works on Japan in English...
  
  
• Kikuchi Dairoku
  Kikuchi Dairoku
  Baron was a mathematician, educator, and educational administrator in Meiji period Japan.-Kikuchi's life and career:Kikuchi was born in Edo , as the second son of Mitsukuri Shuhei...
  
  
• Inagaki Manjirō
  Inagaki Manjiro
  was a Japanese diplomat and political theorist that was active during the Meiji period of Japan.- Early life :Inagaki was born in Nagasaki, as the son of a samurai of the Hirado Domain...
  
  
• Cambridge University
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
  
• Anglo-Japanese relations
  Anglo-Japanese relations
  The history of the relationship between Britain and Japan began in 1600 with the arrival of William Adams on the shores of Kyūshū at Usuki in Ōita Prefecture...
  
  
• Japanese students in Britain

External links

• Reminiscences from the website of the Cambridge & Oxford Society, Tokyo

• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton. Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1-4116-1256-6