Kuroda Kiyotaka

Kuroda Kiyotaka (9 November 1840 – 23 August 1900), also known as Kuroda Ryōsuke was a Japanese statesman and leader, who is the 2nd Prime Minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889 and President of the Privy Council from 1894 to 1900.
He was born in 1840 in Satsuma (present-day Kagoshima Prefecture), Japan, and was educated in traditional Confucian philosophy and Japanese literature.