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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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