Background
Harada Jiro was born in Matsuzaka (Mie Prefecture) in the family of a retainer of the Wakayama Clan.
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Harada Jiro went to Kyoto around the Meiji Restoration in 1868, then studied in Tokyo. Also he learned waka poetry under Hirotsuna and Nobutsuna Sasaki.
Career
Harada became a Finance Ministry official in 1875, resigned in 1879 and became president of the Seventy-Fourth National Bank in Yokohama. His ability recognized by Kaoru Inoue, he was appointed managing director of the Konoike Bank in 1902. After playing a leading part in the Kansai financial world for many years, he retired in 1919. With a fortune he had amassed, he established the Harada Sekizenkai Foundation which was devoted to promotion of learning and social welfare.
