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Baron was a mathematician, educator, and education administrator in Meiji period Empire of Japan. ==Life and career== Kikuchi was born in Edo (present-day Tokyo), as the second son of Mitsukuri Shuhei, himself the adopted son of Mitsukuri Genpo, a Shogunate professor. Kikuchi Dairoku changed his name from Mitsukuri upon succeeding as the heir to his father's original family; the requisite legal procedures were completed in 1877.〔Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912, pg 66, Noboru Koyama〕 After attending the ''Bansho Shirabesho'', the Shogunal institute for western studies, he was sent to Great Britain, in 1866, at age 11, the youngest of a group of Japanese sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to the University College School, on the advice of the then British foreign minister Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby. Kikuchi returned to England in 1870 and was the first Japanese student to graduate from the University of Cambridge (St. John's College) and the only one to graduate from the University of London in the 19th century.〔. Venn also lists him under the name '(Dairoku, Yasu-Yuki Kikuchi )'. In one case his birth date is given as May 17, 1855; in the other as March 17, 1855.〕 His specialization was in physics and mathematics. In 1884 he attended the International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. and the master class of Kelvin in Baltimore. After returning to Japan, Kikuchi later became president of Tokyo Imperial University, Minister of Education (1901–1903) and president of Kyoto Imperial University. His textbook on elementary geometry was the most widely used textbook in Japan until the end of World War II. Kikuchi was made a baron under the ''kazoku'' peerage system in 1902 and was the eighth president of the Gakushūin Peers' School. He was briefly the first president of the Science Research Institute of Japan (''Rikagakukenkyusho'' or RIKEN, the equivalent of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge). He died in 1917. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kikuchi Dairoku」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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