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title: "Kenzō Kamiya"
nativeTitle: "神谷 謙三"
type: "character"
nation: "nichirin"
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**Kenzō Kamiya** (神谷 謙三; born June 9, 1888) is a [[nichirin|Nichirian]] lawyer serving as Minister of Justice under Shogun [[masashi-miyamoto]]. Kamiya studied law at the University of Shinkeisei, where he completed a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws in criminal law. He began his legal career as a public defender at Shinkeisei District Court before being appointed Senior Prosecutor at the Ministry of Justice on October 19, 1923, eighteen days after Shogun Masashi Miyamoto assumed power. He served as Senior Prosecutor for five years before his appointment as Minister of Justice on July 8, 1928, succeeding Teijo Okuda.
As Minister, Kamiya led the prosecution of Hideaki Katsuragi, the former SEELE Director of Intelligence, who was convicted of treason in March 1930. The prosecution's central argument established that the weapons Katsuragi had distributed through organized crime networks were procured before the operational mandate he cited as authorization, a timeline discrepancy that demonstrated the arming could not have been conducted under the mandate's authority. Kamiya is noted within the Miyamoto administration for an exacting and unsentimental approach to the justice system he administers.
