Ōkuma Shigenobu

Marquess **** was a Japanese politician who was the Prime Minister in 1898, and from 1914 to 1916. He founded the political party Rikken Kaishintō. He is also the founder of Waseda University.

## Other websites

- Yomiuri Shimbun: Less than 30% of primary school students in Japan know historical significance of Ōkuma , 2008.
- Photograph of Rabindranath Tagore and Count Okuma in Japan in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office2**: Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan), Minister for Foreign Affairs
- **primeminister2**: _Himself_
- **term start2**: 10 August 1915
- **term end2**: 13 October 1915
- **predecessor2**: Katō Takaaki
- **successor2**: Ishii Kikujirō
- **primeminister3**: _Himself_
- **term start3**: 30 June 1898
- **term end3**: 8 November 1898
- **predecessor3**: Nishi Tokujirō
- **successor3**: Aoki Shūzō
- **primeminister4**: Matsukata Masayoshi
- **term start4**: 22 September 1896
- **term end4**: 6 November 1897
- **predecessor4**: Saionji Kinmochi
- **successor4**: Nishi Tokujirō
- **primeminister5**: Itō Hirobumi
Kuroda Kiyotaka
- **term start5**: 1 February 1888
- **term end5**: 24 December 1889
- **predecessor5**: Itō Hirobumi
- **successor5**: Aoki Shūzō
- **office6**: Home Ministry, Minister of Home Affairs
- **primeminister6**: _Himself_
- **term start6**: 30 July 1915
- **term end6**: 10 August 1915
- **predecessor6**: Ōura Kanetake
- **successor6**: Ichiki Kitokurō
- **primeminister7**: _Himself_
- **term start7**: 16 April 1914
- **term end7**: 7 January 1915
- **predecessor7**: Hara Takashi
- **successor7**: Ōura Kanetake
- **office8**: Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce
- **primeminister8**: Matsukata Masayoshi
- **term start8**: 29 March 1897
- **term end8**: 6 November 1897
- **predecessor8**: Enomoto Takeaki
- **successor8**: Yamada Nobumichi
- **office9**: Minister of Finance (Japan), Minister of Finance
- **monarch9**: Emperor Meiji, Meiji
- **term start9**: 25 October 1873
- **term end9**: 28 February 1880
- **predecessor9**: Ōkubo Toshimichi
- **successor9**: Sano Tsunetami


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: Junior First Rank
Kazoku, Marquess
- **name**: Ōkuma Shigenobu
- **native name lang**: ja
- **image**: Okuma Shigenobu.jpg
- **caption**: Okuma  1915
- **office**: Prime Minister of Japan
- **monarch**: Emperor Taishō, Taishō
- **term start**: 16 April 1914
- **term end**: 9 October 1916
- **predecessor**: Yamamoto Gonnohyōe
- **successor**: Terauchi Masatake
- **monarch1**: Emperor Meiji, Meiji
- **term start1**: 30 June 1898
- **term end1**: 8 November 1898
- **predecessor1**: Itō Hirobumi
- **successor1**: Yamagata Aritomo
- **office10**: Member of the House of Peers (Japan), House of Peers
- **term start10**: 14 July 1916
- **term end10**: 10 January 1922
- **birth place**: Saga District, Saga, Saga, Hizen, Tokugawa shogunate, Japan
- **death place**: Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Empire of Japan, Japan
- **party**: Independent politician, Independent
(1908–1914; 1916–1922)
- **otherparty**: Rikken Kaishintō (1882–1896)
Shimpotō (1896–1898)
Kenseitō (1898–1908)
Rikken Dōshikai (1914–1916)
- **signature**: OkumaS kao.png