Kōno Hironaka
| Kōno Hironaka 河野広中 |
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August 24, 1849 Mutsu Province, Japan |
| Died | December 29, 1923 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | politician, cabinet minister |
Kōno Hironaka (河野広中?, 24 August 1849 – 29 December 1923) was a politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan.
Kōno was a native of Mutsu Province (modern-day Fukushima Prefecture), where his father, Iwamura Hidetoshi, was a samurai in the service of Miharu Domain, who supplemented his 100 koku income through trade in clothes, sake brewing and wholesale of marine products. Kōno was sent to Edo for studies in Confucianism and was drawn into the sonnō jōi movement. During the Boshin War, he fought against his family, whose Miharu Domain remained loyal to the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a member of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. Following the Meiji restoration, he served as an administrator in many locations in northern Japan for the new Meiji government, and became associated with Itagaki Taisuke and the Freedom and People's Rights Movement. With the Satsuma Rebellion, Kōno resisted attempts to recruit him to the side of Saigō Takamori, but instead joined Itagaki in forming the Aikokusha movement, pushing for the creation of a national assembly. He was one of the founding members of the Jiyūtō political party in 1881. He was leader of the Jiyūtō in Fukushima Prefecture from 1882–1883, during the time of the Fukushima Incident, when conservative forces within the government sought to curb the growing power of the Jiyūtō through illegal means.
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