Marquess was a Japanese diplomat and businessman.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Inoue Katsunosuke" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 389.
Diplomatic career He was born in Suō Province, a son of Mitsuto Inoue. Katsunosuke was adopted by his uncle, Kaoru Inoue, after his father died in 1869.
Inoue served as Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium in 1898. In 1898-1906, he served as Minister Plenipotentiary in Berlin.
He was Japan's ambassador in Germany (1906-1908), in Chile (1910–1913) and in the United Kingdom in 1913-1916.
Inoue was a director of the Manchurian Railway.
See also List of Japanese ministers, envoys and ambassadors to Germany
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