Last Genro Prince Saionji, Japan's "Grand Old Man"

Published originally in 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, this work focused on the last member of a distinguished group of genros, or elder statesmen, who participated in the wars of the Meiji restoration and in 1889 under the Emperor Meiji drew up the Imperial Constitution under which the Japanese political system was based. Prince Saionji was the president of the Privy Council, the second president of the Seyukai party, twice Prime Minister and Japan's Chief Delegate to the Paris Peace Conference.Omura, Bunji K. is the author of 'Last Genro Prince Saionji, Japan's "Grand Old Man"' with ISBN 9780710309174 and ISBN 0710309171.