Background
Shibata Kamon was born in 1862, Japan.
Shibata Kamon was born in 1862, Japan.
He graduated from the Law Department, Tokyo University (1890).
Formerly a retainer of the Choshu Clan (Yamaguchi Prefecture). Was a counselor of the Cabinet Legislative Bureau and chief of the Local Administration Bureau, Home Ministry. He was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the first and second Katsura cabinets and appointed Education Minister in the third Katsura Cabinet (1912). Was nominated a member of the House of Peers.