Maeda Toshisada

Viscount
Toshisada Maeda
Viscount Toshisada Maeda
前田利定
	Maeda in 1913
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce
	In office; 7 January 1924 – 11 June 1924
Prime Minister	Kiyoura Keigo
Preceded by	Okano Keijirō
Succeeded by	Takahashi Korekiyo
Minister of Communications
	In office; 12 June 1922 – 2 September 1923
Prime Minister	Katō Tomosaburō
Preceded by	Noda Utarō
Succeeded by	Inukai Tsuyoshi
Member of the House of Peers
	In office; 10 July 1904 – 2 February 1944 Hereditary peerage
Personal details
Born	10 December 1874; Tokyo, Japan
Died	2 October 1944 (aged 69); Tokyo, Japan
Relatives	Toshinari Maeda (brother); Katsuo Okazaki (son-in-law)
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University

Viscount Toshisada Maeda (前田利定, Maeda Toshisada; 10 December 1874 – 2 October 1944) was a Japanese politician who was Minister of Communications and Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in the pre-war Empire of Japan.

Biography

Toshisada Maeda was born in Tokyo, as the eldest son of Maeda Toshiaki, the final daimyō of Nanokaichi Domain in Kōzuke Province, and inherited his father’s kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount). His brother, Toshinari, was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.

Toshisada Maeda was a graduate of Tokyo Imperial University. He served briefly in the infantry during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, and afterwards assumed his family’s seat in the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan in 1904. In 1922, he was appointed Minister of Communications in the cabinet of Katō Tomosaburō. He subsequently served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Kiyoura Keigo as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. He retired from public life in January 1944, and died in October of the same year. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasures, 1st class.

Maeda studied poetry under Sasaki Nobutsuna. His daughter married post-war Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki.