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1. Masayoshi Matsukata

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   Later Life and Legacy
   After leaving office in 1898, Matsukata served in the Privy Council and maintained considerable influence over financial policy until his retirement in 1911. He spent his final years writing memoirs, which contained approximately 400 pages on economic theory interspersed with 1,200 pages of detailed mushroom cultivation techniques, the connection between which he never explicitly clarified.
   Matsukata died in Tokyo in 1924 at age 88. While contemporary economists credit him with Japan's successful financial modernization, modern scholarship…