Yamada Nobumichi (山田信道)
Nobumichi YAMADA (December 13, 1833 - March 11, 1900) was a government official and a statesman in Japan. He was the former feudal retainer of the Kumamoto Domain. He was a baron.
Biography
He was from Kumamoto Domain, Higo Province. Being attracted to the thought of Sonno Joi (reverence for the Emperor and the expulsion of foreigners), he went to Kagoshima. In 1863, he was captured by the bakufu for the Coup of August 18 and sentenced to five-year imprisonment. He joined the new government after the Meiji Restoration and was appointed to the governor of Esashi Prefecture, following the Haihan-chiken (abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures) in 1871. Since then, he served as the prefectural governor of Shimane and Fukushima, and then became the governor of Osaka Prefecture in 1891. He became the governor of Kyoto Prefecture in 1895. On June 5, 1896, he received a baron in recognition of the Meiji Restoration and local administrations. He got into the second Matsukata cabinet as the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in 1897. After that, he served in Board of Audit.