He was among descendants of the Meiji period kazoku (peerage) which was abolished in 1947.
[2] The major part of his working career was spent as an executive at the NYK Line shipping company.
Then Kyōgoku headed Kantō Eisen (関東曳船株式会社),[1] which is a small tugboat and port transport firm based in Yokohama.
[3] Kyōgoku was named the chief priest (kannushi) of the Yasukuni Shrine in 2009.
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