Katsura Tarō

Prince  was a Japanese politician and general who was the prime minister of Japan from 1901 to 1906, from 1908 to 1911, and from 1912 to 1913. He is the second-longest serving Japanese prime minister after Shinzo Abe.

## Infobox (officeholder)

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- **office4**: Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Minister for Foreign Affairs
- **primeminister4**: _Himself_
- **term start4**: 21 December 1912
- **term end4**: 29 January 1913
- **predecessor4**: Uchida Kōsai
- **successor4**: Katō Takaaki
- **office5**: Minister of Finance (Japan), Minister of Finance
- **primeminister5**: _Himself_
- **term start5**: 14 July 1908
- **term end5**: 30 August 1911
- **predecessor5**: Matsuda Masahisa
- **successor5**: Yamamoto Tatsuo
- **office6**: Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Minister of Education
- **primeminister6**: _Himself_
- **term start6**: 14 December 1905
- **term end6**: 7 January 1906
- **predecessor6**: Kubota Yuzuru
- **successor6**: Saionji Kinmochi
- **office7**: Home Ministry, Minister of Home Affairs
- **primeminister7**: _Himself_
- **term start7**: 22 October 1903
- **term end7**: 20 February 1904
- **predecessor7**: Kodama Gentarō
- **successor7**: Yoshikawa Akimasa
- **office8**: Army Ministry, Minister of the Army
- **primeminister8**: Itō Hirobumi
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Yamagata Aritomo
Itō Hirobumi
- **term start8**: 12 January 1898
- **term end8**: 23 December 1900
- **predecessor8**: Takashima Tomonosuke
- **successor8**: Kodama Gentarō


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: Junior First Rank
Kazoku, Prince
- **honorific-suffix**: Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, CSOC Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, GCSOC
- **name**: Katsura Tarō
- **native name lang**: ja
- **image**: 11 KatsuraT.jpg
- **office**: Prime Minister of Japan
- **monarch**: Emperor Taishō, Taishō
- **term start**: 21 December 1912
- **term end**: 20 February 1913
- **predecessor**: Saionji Kinmochi
- **successor**: Yamamoto Gonnohyōe
- **monarch1**: Emperor Meiji, Meiji
- **term start1**: 14 July 1908
- **term end1**: 30 August 1911
- **predecessor1**: Saionji Kinmochi
- **successor1**: Saionji Kinmochi
- **monarch2**: Meiji
- **term start2**: 2 June 1901
- **term end2**: 7 January 1906
- **predecessor2**: Saionji Kinmochi (acting)
- **successor2**: Saionji Kinmochi
- **office3**: Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan
- **monarch3**: Taishō
- **term start3**: 21 August 1912
- **term end3**: 21 December 1912
- **predecessor3**: Tokudaiji Sanetsune
- **successor3**: Prince Fushimi Sadanaru
- **office9**: Governor-General of Taiwan
- **monarch9**: Emperor Meiji, Meiji
- **term start9**: 2 June 1896
- **term end9**: 14 October 1896
- **predecessor9**: Kabayama Sukenori
- **successor9**: Nogi Maresuke
- **office10**: Member of the House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers
- **term start10**: 21 April 1911
- **term end10**: 11 October 1913
- **term start11**: 21 September 1907
- **term end11**: 20 April 1911
- **birth place**: Hagi, Yamaguchi, Hagi, Nagato Province, Nagato, Tokugawa shogunate, Japan
- **death place**: Mita, Minato, Tokyo, Mita, Tokyo, Empire of Japan, Japan
- **death cause**: Stomach cancer
- **resting place**: Shōin shrine, Tokyo
- **party**: Rikken Dōshikai (1913)
- **otherparty**: Independent (politician), Independent (1896–1913)
- **profession**: Soldier and politician
- **awards**: See #Decorations, Decorations
- **signature**: KatsuraT kao.png
- **serviceyears**: 1870–1901
- **rank**:   General
- **commands**: IJA 3rd Division
- **battles**: Boshin War
First Sino-Japanese War