Background
Akira Komatsu was born in Japan in 1842. A retainer of Matsumoto Clan (Nagano Prefecture).
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Akira Komatsu
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Akira Komatsu began his education at the age of 11 at Sukeikan (clan school) and later studied the Chinese classics from Zozan Sakuma.
Career
After the Meiji Restoration (1868) was given a high ranking job in the Meiji Government to eventually become Vice-Minister of Education. Resigned Government service (1881) and the following year together with Eiichi Shi-busawa, Takashi Masuda and Yonosuke Mitsui founded the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Akira Komatsu became director of Ryomo Railway Company and of Tokyo Rice Exchange (1879).
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1869 - 1881