Background
Yosaburo Takegoshi was born on November 22, 1865 Niigata, Japan.
與三郎 竹越
Yosaburo Takegoshi was born on November 22, 1865 Niigata, Japan.
He graduated from Keio University.
Yosaburo Takegoshi drifted into journalism (1887) and was associated for a while with several magazines in Osaka for which he wrote leading articles under the pen name of Sansha. He soon gained fame as a historian by authoring several books on the subject.
Along with this, and with the assistance of Kimmochi Saionji and Munemitsu Mutsu he published and edited a magazine called "Japan and The World". In 1900 he was appointed a councilor at the Ministry of Education and the following year was elected a member of the Diet.
In 1907 he became a director of the Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper). He ran again for the Diet in 1919 but was unsuccessful and he went back to writing history books. Among his works are: "History of Japanese Economics", "New Japanese History" and a biography on Prince Saionji. He was elected a member of the House of Peers in 1923.
