Background
He was born in Hyūga Province. His father, Akizuki Taneyo (秋月 種節) was an elder of the Takanabe Domain.
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Akizuki Satsuo
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Education
He graduated from the Han school called Meirindō (明倫堂) founded by Akizuki Taneshige (秋月 種茂). He attended Kagoshima Medical School, but dropped out.
Career
He was the third of four sons. Makino Nobuaki (牧野 伸顕) was his brother-in-law. He graduated from the Japanese Ministry of Justice Law School.
He worked in the Ministry of Justice for a time, but then became a diplomat.
He worked as a diplomat to Sweden, the Japanese ambassador to Belgium, and the ambassador extraordinary to Australia, before leaving office in 1914. He worked as a plenipotentiary advisor at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
During his time as ambassador to Belgium, in 1908, he observed a British Boy Scout event. He reported his findings to others, which spread word of the Boy Scout movement to Japan.
He was an editorial advisor for (and later president of) the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, worked as the head of the Keijō Nippō (京城日報) newspaper, and was also deputy leader of the Association for the Accession of the True Emperor in Greater Japan (大日本皇道立教会, Dainippon Honkō Dōritsu Kyōkai).
