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 Ito, Hirobumi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After the Meiji restoration, Ito served in the ministries of foreign affairs, finance, and industry.
He was a member of the mission sent abroad (1871) under Prince Iwakura to revise the unequal treaties with the Western powers and study Western technology.
In 1873, Ito became a member of the ruling council and worked to modernize Japan and solidify the power of the oligarchs.
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 Hirobumi Ito biography
He was made Minister of the Interior in 1878, and in 1882 visited Europe and the United States for the purpose of familiarizing himself with representative institutions preliminary to the establishment of a parliamentary régime in Japan.
Ito is well called "The Father of the Constitution," and his volume of Commentaries, in illustration and defense of Japan’s fundamental law, is worthy to rank with the Federalist.
During the progress of the war the advice of Marquis Ito was largely effective in shaping the course of diplomatic events.
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 Ito Hirobumi
Choshu, in common with many of his fellow Daimyos, was bitterly opposed to the rule of the shogun, and when this rule resulted in the conclusion of the treaty with Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854, the smouldering discontent broke out into open hostility against both parties to the compact.
In these views Ito cordially agreed with his chieftain, and was sent on a secret mission to Yedo to report to his lord on the doings of the government.
As a reward for his conspicuous services in connection with the Chinese War Ito was made a marquis, and in 1897 he accompanied Prince Arisugawa as a joint representative of the Mikado at the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
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 Station Information - Ito Hirobumi
Count Itō Hirobumi (伊藤 博文 1841-1909, also called Hirofumi/Hakubun) was a Japanese politician and the country's first Prime Minister (and the 5th, 7th and 10th).
He was a Choshu samurai's adopted son and gained samurai status for himself in 1863, but a visit to England in the same year convinced him of the necessity of modernising Japan by adopting Western ways.
Despite resigning as Resident General in 1909 Ito was assassinated at Harbin in Manchuria by a Korean nationalist An Jung-geun in 1909.
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 Documents relating to Ito Hirobumi, NDL Newsletter 121
Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909) was a famous politician in the Meiji era.
From "Ito Hirobumi den" (A biography of Ito Hirobumi) Vol.
Ito Hirobumi was prime minister then and recommended Okuma Shigenobu and Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919; founder of Japan's first political party, the Jiyuto) of the Kenseito to succeed him as premiers and asked them to organize cabinet.
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 Japan Glossary - Ito Hirobumi
One of the Meiji era's most famous statesmen, Ito was Japan's first prime minister and served a record four times as such (see Japanese prime ministers).
Ito Hirobumi was born in the feudal province of Choshu.
Ito was assasinated in 1909 by a Korean nationalist while on a trip to Harbin (Manchuria).
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 Encyclopedia: Ito Hirobumi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Okubo Toshimichi in 1878 he was home minister and dominated the government, by 1881 he forced Okuma Shigenobu to resign and gain the key role for himself.
ITO, HIROBUMI, PRINCE (1841-1909), Japanese statesman, was born in 1841, being the son of Ito JtTizO, and (like his father) began life as a retainer of the lord of Choshu, one of the most powerful nobles of Japan.
Ito, who was better aware than his chief of the disproportion between the fighting powers of Europe and Japan, memorialized the cabinets, begging that hostilities should be suspended until he should have had time to use his influence with Choshu in the interests of peace.
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 Ito Hirobumi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909) was a young man from Choshu domain at the time of the Meiji Restoration.
Ito is best known as a civilian administrator, as the main writer of the Meiji constitution, and the first president of the first successful party under the constitution.
Ito was not only a gifted politician and administrator, it was he who held the emerging modern Japanese state together through careful compromise at crucial times which might have erupted into devastating conflict.
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After the Meiji Restoration (additional info and facts about Meiji Restoration), Ito served as a junior councillor in a number of different ministries.
In 1873, Ito was made a full councillor and following the death of Okubo Toshimichi (additional info and facts about Okubo Toshimichi) in 1878 he was home minister and dominated the government, by 1881 he forced Okuma Shigenobu (additional info and facts about Okuma Shigenobu) to resign and gain the key role for himself.
Despite resigning as Resident-General (additional info and facts about Resident-General) in 1909 Ito was assassinated at Harbin (additional info and facts about Harbin) in Manchuria (A region in northeastern China) by a Korean nationalist An Jung-geun (additional info and facts about An Jung-geun).
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 WI Ito Hirobumi was not assassinated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ito favored a = relatively light and indirect touch in the Japanese governance of = Korea.
However, Ito was murdered by a Korean nationalist in 1909 and the Japanese government used the assassination as an excuse to turn Korea into a normal colony.
Ito favored a relatively light and indirect touch in the Japanese governance of Korea.
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 Written biography of Hirobumi Ito | Life of Hirobumi Ito   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hirobumi Ito (1841-1909) was a Japanese statesman and one of the younger leaders of the Meiji government.
He took primary responsibility for the creation of the constitutional system which governed Japan until 1945.In the middle of the 19th century, Japan was governed by the Tokugawa shoguns (military dictators, or the bakufu).
The shogunate's meek accession to Western demands precipitated a nationalistic reaction, the overthrow of the bakufu, and the restoration of the governing power to the emperor.Hirobumi Ito was born the son of a peasant named Juzo Hayashi on Sept. 2, 1841, in Tokamura, a village in the Choshu domain in western Honshu.
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 Rise to power (from Ito Hirobumi) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Although its hot springs were discovered in the late 16th century, the city did not develop as a resort until the arrival of a railway line from Atami in 1938.
Ito is now the second largest spa on the peninsula (after Atami), with almost 400 hot springs.
When the European-style cabinet system of government was formed in Japan in 1885, Hirobumi Ito became the first prime minister.
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 Ito Hirobumi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Count Itō Hirobumi (伊藤 博文 1841-1909, also calledHirofumi/Hakubun) was a Japanese politician and the country's first Prime Minister (and the 5th, 7th and 10th).
After the Meiji Restoration, Ito served as a junior councillorin a number of different ministries.
In 1873, Ito was made a full councillor and following the death of Okubo Toshimichi in 1878 he was home minister and dominated the government,by 1881 he forced Okuma Shigenobu to resign and gain the key role forhimself.
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 Mutsu Munemitsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mutsu Munemitsu (陸奥 宗光 Mutsu Munemitsu, 1844-97) was a Japanese politician and diplomat who was a foreign minister in Ito Hirobumi's cabinet in 1892.
A vehement opponent of clan government that is, usurpation of administrative posts by men of two or three fiefs, an abuse which threatened to follow the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, he conspired to assist Saigo's rebellion and was imprisoned from 1878 until 1883.
He played an important role in the diplomacy of Sino-Japanese war, negotiating the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895 with Ito.
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 Hirobumi Ito --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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More conservative than Ito Hirobumi, who drafted the Japanese constitution, Yamagata proposed to the first Diet that Japan should expand its dominion over part of the Asian continent.
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 AllRefer.com - Hirobumi Ito (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Hirobumi Ito[hErO´bOOmE E´tO] Pronunciation Key, 1841–1909, Japanese statesman, the outstanding figure in the modernization of Japan.
From 1901 to 1913 the premiership alternated between his protEgE, Kimmochi Saionji, and Taro Katsura, a follower of Yamagata.
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 Ito Hirobumi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ito Hirobumi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Born in Hagi, Yamaguchi, Prince Itō Hirobumi (伊藤 博文 Itō Hirobumi 1841–1909, also called Hirofumi/Hakubun) was a Japanese politician and the country's first Prime Minister (and the 5th, 7th and 10th).
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 Count Ito Hirobumi - Japanese Politician
Count Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909, also called Hirofumi/Hakubun) was a Japanese politician and the country's first Prime Minister (and the 5th, 7th and 10th).
He was a Choshu samurai's adopted son and gained samurai status for himself in 1863, but a visit to England in the same year convinced him of the necessity of modernizing Japan by adopting Western ways.
In 1873, Ito was made a full councilor and following the death of Okubo Toshimichi in 1878 he was home minister and dominated the government, by 1881 he forced Okuma Shigenobu to resign and gain the key role for himself.
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 Assassination (from Ito Hirobumi) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In 1905, following the Russo-Japanese War, Ito was sent to Korea to negotiate the treaty that turned Korea into a Japanese protectorate.
He returned there as resident general (1906–09), where he pursued a gradualist policy of economic and bureaucratic reform.
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 Ito Hirobumi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born to a samurai's adopted son in Choshu fief in western Japan, Ito received samurai status in 1863 and was sent to England to study despite the official policy of national seclusion.
Appointed junior councillor in charge of foreign affairs after the Meiji Restoration, Ito studied Western financial systems and toured the West with other government officials in 1871-1873.
Made full councillor in 1873, he dominated government as home minister after the assassination of Okubo Toshimichi in 1878.
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 Ito Hirobumi - Wikimedia Commons
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Ito Hirobumi (伊藤 博文, Itō Hirobumi, 1841–1909) was a Japanese politician and the country's first Prime Minister.
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 Hirobumi Ito Biography / Biography of Hirobumi Ito Biography
He took primary responsibility for the creation of the constitutional system which governed Japan until 1945.
Hirobumi Ito was born the son of a peasant named Juzo Hayashi on Sept. 2, 1841, in Tokamura, a village in the Choshu domain in western Honshu.
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Born in Hagi, Yamaguchi, Count Itō Hirobumi (伊藤 博文 Itō Hirobumi 1841–1909, also called Hirofumi/Hakubun) was a Japanese politician and the country's first Prime Minister (and the 5th, 7th and 10th).
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