Hōjō Tokiyuki (Scouting)
This article is on the Japanese Scouting figure. For the samurai, please see Hōjō Tokiyuki.
Hōjō Tokiyuki was an educator, mathematician and politician in Meiji period Japan. He was the twelfth head of Gakushūin Peers’ School, and an early Japanese Scouting notable.Biography
Hōjō was born as the second son of a samurai retainer of the Maeda clan of Kanazawa Domain,.
In 1908, Hōjō attended an international conference on morality in London, England, at the request of Japanese Minister of Culture, Makino Nobuaki. One of the reasons for his trip was to conduct a survey of the British Scouting organization, and its applicability towards furthering the Japanese government's program of instilling moral education in schools. He returned to Japan with Scout uniforms and documents on Scouting, and took an active role in promoting the Japanese Scouting movement in Hiroshima and elsewhere in Japan.
In 1913, Hōjō was appointed head of Tohoku Imperial University. He became head of the Gakushūin Peers's School in 1917.
In 1920, Hōjō became an advisor to the Imperial Court, and was appointed a member of the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan.
On April 27, 1929, he died of liver cancer, aged 71.
