Tetchō Suehiro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tetchō Suehiro

Japanese novelist, journalist and politician

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1849

Place of Birth: Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1896

Profession: journalist, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Tetcho Suehiro (?? ??, Suehiro Tetcho, March 15, 1849 – February 5, 1896), born Yujiro Suehiro, was a Japanese politician, novelist, and journalist.
He was proponent of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement.Born of samurai lineage in what is now Ehime Prefecture, he was the second son of the family.
His father, Teisuke, was an accountant.
He graduated from a local samurai school and became a teacher in 1869.
Thereafter, he moved to Tokyo and worked for the Ministry of Finance for six years before going into the newspaper business.
He was imprisoned twice for challenging the existing free press laws and was instrumental in forming the first national political party.
He wrote a political, proto-science fiction novel Setchubai (Plum Blossoms in the Snow, 1886).
In 1890 he was elected in the first national election, but was later ousted because he left the Liberal Party.
Suehiro died in 1896 of tongue cancer and was buried in Ehime.