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Statesman. Born in Tokyo, the son of a vassal of the Shogun. He studied at the Shoheizaka Gakumonjo (official school of the Shogunate), Numazu War Academy, Daigaku Nanko (predecessor of Tokyo University), and the English studies school attached to the Ministry of Finance. At the age of 23, he was adopted by Toyohiro Shimada, representative of members of the Yokohama Mainichi Shinbun and entered the Tokyo Yokohama Mainichi Shinbunsha in 1881. In 1890, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives in the first general election, and was reelected for 14 consecutive terms. In 1894, he became vice-speaker of the House of Representatives and its speaker in 1915. He was known as a person of eloquence, and renowned as a journalist who, as the president of the Mainichi Shinbunsha, took up the movement to abolish prostitution and publicized the Ashio Copper Mine Incident.
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Shimada, Saburo 
