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. Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is the True Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names - Established 1546 Sister College Christ Church Master Sir Martin Rees Location Trinity Street Undergraduates 656 Graduates 380 Homepage Boatclub The Great Gate is the... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after Oxford). ... Zaibatsu (Japanese: 財閥) is a Japanese term meaning money clique or conglomerate. ...

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. Brooklands was a motor racing circuit built near Weybridge in Surrey, England. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. It is divided into a number of districts - Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking, and borders on Hampshire, Berkshire, Greater London, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex. ...

See also

• Suematsu Kencho
• Kikuchi Dairoku
• Inagaki Manjiro
• Cambridge University
• Anglo-Japanese relations

Categories: Japanese authors | Japanese historians | Japanese statesmen | Japan-related stubs ... Kikuchi Dairoku as a professor at Tokyo Imperial University Dairoku Kikuchi (Born March 17, 1855 - Died August 19, 1917) (or in the Japanese order Kikuchi Dairoku, 菊池大麓) was born in Edo, the second son of Mitsukuri Shuhei. ... Categories: Japanese diplomats | Japan-related stubs ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after Oxford). ... Contents // Categories: Japanese history | Japan-related stubs ...

External Links

• Reminiscences (http://www.camford.org/Takaki.htm) 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 (http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/hatenkou.html), by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton, (Lulu Press (http://www.lulu.com/content/71869), September 2004, ISBN 1411612566)