Sone Arasuke
Sone Arasuke was a Japanese politician, diplomat, cabinet minister, and second Japanese Resident-General of Korea.Biography
Sone was born in Nagato Province in Chōshū Domain under the kazoku peerage system. He became a Privy Councillor in 1906, and elevated in status to viscount the following year.
Sone was appointed as Vice Resident-General of the Japanese administration in Korea in 1907, and Resident-General of Korea in 1909, replacing Itō Hirobumi. One of his major actions in Korea was to install a peninsula-wide telephone network, linking government offices, police stations and military installations throughout Korea. Sone was opposed to the Japanese annexation of Korea, but was forced to resign from his post in May 1910 due to illness and died a few months later.
