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Kamata Eikichi (; 1863–1934)

(2025). 9780429748899, Routledge. .
was a Japanese politician and educator. He served as Minister of Education from 1922 until 1923, and was president of for over 20 years.


Educational career
During the 1880s, Kamata was a teacher at , where he had previously been a student. Kamata succeeded as president of the university in 1898. He left the position in 1922, and was succeeded by as interim president before Ichitaro Fukuzawa took over full-time.

In his role at the university, he put across his progressive views, taking part in American customs like throwing the ceremonial first pitch in the university's newly built baseball field.

(2025). 9780807882665, Univ of North Carolina Press. .
Kamata was an advocate of , believing it was necessary to accompany the "equality between the classes" within post-feudal Japan.
(2025). 9780824829971, University of Hawaii Press. .
Writing in the educational- cum-movie magazine Katsudo no Sekai, he proposed the use of for educational purposes.
(2025). 9780822389828, Duke University Press. .
He also published essays in Kokuhon alongside other prominent educators and university presidents.

Alongside these progressive views, Kamata used his position at the university to push his patriotic view of independence, believing that education was key to accomplishing the goals of the nation-state. In 1920, he suggested that students "must not be deceived by deceptive ideologies nor follow the group blindly but realize the spirit of freedom, and independence and self-respect".

During his presidency there, Keio established its graduate programmes, established the schools of medicine and nursing, and became accredited by the Japanese government as one of the country's first private universities.


Ministerial career
Kamata served as Minister of Education from 1922 until 1923. On 11 November 1922, Kamata was present at Japan's first large-scale celebration in 's .
(2025). 9781107037700, Cambridge University Press. .
He was one of several speakers, including Uchida Kōsai and Drew Pearson.

After he left the Ministry of Education, he was a member of the Privy Council from 1927, and head of the Imperial Council on Education in 1932.

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