Editing Takahashi Korekiyo (section)

==Bureaucratic career==
[[File:Korekiyo Takahashi 5 cropped.jpg|thumb|left|Korekiyo Takahashi, 1934]]
After his return to Japan in 1868, Takahashi taught English conversation. He later became the first master of the ''{{ill|Kyōryū Gakkō|ja|開成中学校・高等学校#共立学校|vertical-align=sup}}'' high school in Tokyo (currently [[Kaisei Academy]]), and at the same time worked as a low-ranking bureaucrat in the [[Ministry of Education (Japan)|Ministry of Education]], and then in the [[Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce]]. He was appointed as the first chief of the Bureau of Patents, a department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, and helped organized the [[patent]] system in Japan. At one point, he resigned his government positions and went to [[Peru]] to start a silver mining enterprise, but failed.<ref name="wsj" />

Takahashi became an employee of the [[Bank of Japan]] in 1892, and his talents were soon recognized, as he rose to become vice-president in 1898.

During and after the [[Russo-Japanese War]] of 1904–1905, Takahashi raised foreign loans that were critical to Japan's war effort. He met personally with American financier [[Jacob Schiff#National loans|Jacob Schiff, who floated half of Japan's loans in the U.S.]] He also raised loans from the [[Rothschild family]] in Britain.

For this success, he was appointed to the [[House of Peers (Japan)|House of Peers]] of the [[Diet of Japan]] in 1905.

Takahashi was named president of the [[Yokohama Specie Bank]] in 1906. He was made a [[baron]] (''danshaku'') under the ''[[kazoku]]'' peerage system in 1907.

Takahashi was Governor of the Bank of Japan from 1 June 1911, through 20 February 1913.<ref>BOJ, [http://www.boj.or.jp/en/about/outline/history/pre_gov/index.htm/ List of Governors].</ref>