Okura Kishichiro
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Baron Kishichiro Okura (1882-1963, 大倉喜七郎 Okura Kishichiro in Japanese) studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1903 to 1906 but he did not manage to graduate from Cambridge University. He was the playboy son of Kihachiro Okura (1837-1928) who as an entrepreneur built up the Okura-gumi and founded the giant Okura zaibatsu (family trust) and the Okura Shogyo Gakko which later became Tokyo Keizai University (Tokyo University of Economics) in 1949.
Kishichiro competed in the first ever car race held at Brooklands in Surrey 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.
See also
- Suematsu Kencho
- Kikuchi Dairoku
- Inagaki Manjiro
- Cambridge University
- Anglo-Japanese relations
- 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 1411612566)
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