Makino Nobuaki

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Junior First Rank Count Makino Nobuaki
牧野 伸顕
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan
In office 30 March 1925 – 26 February 1935
Monarchs	Taishō Shōwa
Preceded by	Hamao Arata
Succeeded by	Saitō Makoto
Foreign Minister of the Japanese Empire
In office February 1913 – April 1914
Monarch	Taishō
Preceded by	Katō Takaaki
Succeeded by	Katō Takaaki
Personal details
Born	(1861-11-24)November 24, 1861 Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Died	January 25, 1949(1949-01-25) (aged 87) Tokyo, Japan
Parent(s)	Ōkubo Toshimichi Hayasaki Masako
Occupation	Politician, cabinet minister, diplomat

Count Makino Nobuaki, also Makino Shinken (牧野 伸顕, November 24, 1861 – January 25, 1949), was a Japanese politician and imperial court official. As Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, Makino served as Emperor Hirohito's chief counselor on the monarch's position in Japanese society and policymaking.

After victory in World War I, Makino was appointed to be one of Japan's ambassador plenipotentiaries to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, headed by the elder statesman, Marquis Saionji. At the conference, he and other members of the delegation put forth a Racial Equality Proposal. It won the majority of votes, but was vetoed by the chairman, President Woodrow Wilson.

Even after his retirement in 1935, he remained a close advisor to the throne through the end of World War II in 1945.^[1]