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	Okuma Shigenobu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Okuma Shigenobu (大隈重信 Ōkuma Shigenobu 16 February 1838–10 January 1922) was a Japanese politician and the 8th (June 30, 1898–November 8, 1898) and 17th (April 16, 1914–October 9, 1916) Prime Minister of Japan.
		Okuma's clashes with the governing elders continued, and he resigned in 1889 shortly after his right leg was blown off by a bomb.
		Okuma returned to politics during the constitutional crisis of 1914, when the government of Yamamoto Gonnohyoe was forced to resign in the wake of the Siemens scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Okuma_Shigenobu (876 words)

	Okuma, Shigenobu on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Okuma founded (1882) a reform party called the Kaishinto (a forerunner of the Minseito) and agitated for parliamentary government.
		However, Okuma's connections with the Mitsubishi business interests (see zaibatsu) were publicized, and his prestige, and that of democratic government, declined.
		In 1898 he and Itagaki merged their parties to form the Kenseito (Constitutional party) and Okuma served for a brief period as prime minister.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Okuma-S1h.asp (468 words)

	Shigenobu Okuma Biography / Biography of Shigenobu Okuma Biography Biography
		The Japanese statesman and politician Shigenobu Okuma (1838-1922) was one of the early leaders of the Meiji government.
		Born on Feb. 16, 1838, in Saga, the castle town of the Hizen domain in western Kyushu, Shigenobu Okuma was the son of a middle-rank samurai.
		Although Okuma returned to serve twice as foreign minister (1888-1889 and 1896-1897) and twice as premier (1898 and 1914-1916), the remainder of his career was primarily spent in moderate opposition to the Meiji oligarchy.
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	Shigenobu Okuma
		His power in the government grew steadily, and by 1881 he was the only oligarch able or inclined to challenge the conservative and autocratic ideals of Hirobumi
		merged their parties to form the Kenseito (Constitutional party) and Okuma served for a brief period as prime minister.
		During his second term as prime minister (1914–16) the army was expanded, and Japan, entering World War I on the Allied side, seized Kiaochow and presented China with the
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0836508.html (335 words)

	COUNT OKUMA (SHIGENOBU) - LoveToKnow Article on COUNT OKUMA (SHIGENOBU) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		(SHIGENOBU), COUNT (1838)~ Japanese statesman, was born in the province of Hizen ill 1838.
		His father was an officer in the artillefy, and during his early years his education consisted mainly of the study of Chinese literature.
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	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OK/OKUMA_SHIGENOBU_COUNT.htm (3367 words)

	Have an independent spirit!
		I suppose Okuma Auditorium will remain in your mind as a symbol of this university along with the Alma mater.
		It is said that Okuma, who had made speeches outdoors or under tents, said on one occasion, “I’d like to give a speech indoors as I’m now over 80 years old”.
		After that, a plan to commemorate Okuma was set up immediately and the Okuma Auditorium opened on 20 October 1927, when the university celebrated its 45th anniversary.
	www.waseda.jp /student/weekly/contents/english/e055a.html (763 words)

	History 6 Forum Year II
		Mr Okuma is also extremely sceptical about the "change from the past", to which you attach so much pride.
		He asks you to explain what change there was if the Emperor remains the symbol of unity with his stated privileges under the constitution, which is merely a device to prolong the hegemony of the Meiji oligarchs.
		Mr Okuma also reminds you that Japan is now strong and modernised economically and militarily.
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	Okuma, Fukushima - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Okuma, Fukushima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Okuma, Fukushima - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Okuma, Fukushima.
		Here you will find more informations about Okuma, Fukushima.
		As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 10,945 and a density of 139.07 persons per km².
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Okuma-Fukushima.html (107 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: Ex-premier Okuma's leg to be returned to his hometown
		The amputated right leg of Shigenobu Okuma, a Meiji era statesman and Waseda University founder, will be presented to his native city Saga, Waseda officials said Wednesday.
		Okuma's great-great-granddaughter Risa Okuma, 31, said in a telephone interview she was delighted the leg is going to be sent to Saga.
		The severed leg was kept at the Red Cross hospital because one of the hospital's doctors was present during his operation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_1998_August_10/ai_50237085 (293 words)

	Tsuyoshi Inukai Biography / Biography of Tsuyoshi Inukai Biography Biography
		Inukai first entered politics when Shigenobu Okuma resigned from the government and started the Kaishinto (Progressive party) in 1881.
		His first--short-lived--victory was engineering the coalition Okuma Cabinet of 1889, in which he became minister of education.
		He accepted the education portfolio in Yamamoto's Cabinet of 1913 on the rationale that, by supporting this Satsuma faction of the ruling oligarchy, he would be weakening Choshu domination.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-tsuyoshi-inukai (571 words)

	AllRefer.com - Shigenobu Okuma (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Shigenobu Okuma[shEgA´nObOO O´kOOmA] Pronunciation Key, 1838–1922, Japanese statesman.
		During his second term as prime minister (1914–16) the army was expanded, and Japan, entering World War I on the Allied side, seized Kiaochow and presented China with the Twenty-one Demands.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Shigenobu Okuma
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	taishosum
		Okuma Shigenobu from Hizen was a bit of an outsider, but he was a Councillor and actually served as Finance Minister.
		Most did so and agreed that having a constitution and an assembly was a decent idea, but it should come about gradually because the people were not ready.
		Okuma rocked the boat by handing in his opinion last, calling fro an immediate constitution, legislative assemby, and a cabinet system based on the British model of a "responsible" cabinet, i.e., it would fall when given a vote of no-confidence by the legislature.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/taishosum.htm (1520 words)

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	1998.011 Photograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A note which accompanied the photograph says "Photo taken on the 9th year of Taisho era or Oct. 1920.
		Okuma Shigenobu (Koshaku rank - very famous) front center.
		Seattle Mikado Club and Waseda University Baseball Club." Mary Shigaya's father is second from the right in the front row.
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	Japan - Party History and Basic Principles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Its roots can be traced to the groups established by Itagaki Taisuke and Okuma Shigenobu in the 1880s (see The Development of Representative Government, ch.
		It attained its present form in November 1955, when the conservative Liberal Party (Jiyuto) and the Japan Democratic Party (Nihon Minshuto) united in response to the threat posed by a unified Japan Socialist Party, which had been established the month before.
		A business-inspired commitment to free enterprise was tempered by the insistence of important small business and agricultural constituencies on some form of protectionism.
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	Taisho Period : Taisho
		Within three months, Japan secured the control of German possessions on the Shandong Peninsula and the Pacific.
		On October 9, 1916, Terauchi Masatake (1852-1919) took over prime minister from Okuma Shigenobu (1838-1922).
		On November 2, 1917, the Lansing-Ishii Agreement noted the recognization of Japan's interests in China and pledges of keeping an "Open Door[?]" policy.
	www.fastload.org /ta/Taisho.html (2449 words)

	Waseda University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is located on the northern side of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
		The school was founded by samurai scholar Okuma Shigenobu in 1882, and was designated a full university in 1902.
		Much of the campus was destroyed in the firebombings of Tokyo during World War II, but the university was rebuilt and reopened by 1949.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/Waseda-University.htm (568 words)

	Imperial Battleships
		The Japanese Prime Minister, Count Okuma Shigenobu, issues an ultimatum to Kaiser Wilhelm.
		Okuma demands that German naval vessels at Kiaochow (Tsingtao), China either leave or surrender and that Germany allow the destruction of their fortifications there.
		He further demands that Germany’s colonial possessions in China and their islands in the Pacific be turned over to Japan.
	www.combinedfleet.com /haruna.htm (6429 words)

	Okuma, Shigenobu - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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		However, Okuma's connections with the Mitsubishi business interests (see zaibatsu
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	The Life of Marquis Shigenobu Okuma; A Maker of New Japan; Smimasa Idditti
		The Life of Marquis Shigenobu Okuma; A Maker of New Japan; Smimasa Idditti
		Marquis Okuma was an eminent statesman who played a major part in the making of modern Japan, in a public career that extended over fifty years coinciding with Japan’s remarkable era of modernisation.
		Born into a rural samurai family, he joined the new Meiji government in 1868 on the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, and rose steadily, twice serving as Prime Minister, laying the foundations of national finance and founding Waseda University.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/071031/0710311869.HTM (121 words)

	Today in Japanese History: June 1 (UCLA Teaching about Japan website)
		The Minseito (People's) political party was established in Japan.
		The Minseito had its origins in Okuma Shigenobu's Kaishinto party (est.
		It was one of the parties which combined in 1955 to form the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan's dominant political party.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/japan/today/0601.htm (209 words)

	Ito Hirobumi
		Following the 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 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.
		He headed a number of missions to study foreign governments.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/i/it/ito_hirobumi.html (442 words)

	Meiji Modernization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the officials, Okuma Shigenobu (from Saga clan) submitted directly to Emperor in 1880 his draft which proposed a basically British system of government by political parties and suggested the opening of an elected parliament in the following year.
		Other Meiji leaders, who were mainly Choshu and Satsuma men, considered it too liberal, and thus forced Okuma to resign from the government.
		To the Meiji government, a constitution could strengthen the state by uniting the people and the government.
	www.thecorner.org /hists/japan/meiji2.htm (8790 words)

	A Chronology of Japanese History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Katsura resigns as Prime Minister just before a vote of no-confidence in the Diet over defense spending.
		Ôkuma Shigenobu becomes Prime Minister after the Yamamoto cabinet falls due to a scandal concerning navy finances.
		World War I breaks outand Japan enters on the side of the allies in accordance with the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, although they play a very minor role.
	users.lac.uic.edu /~dturk/japanhistory/taishohistory.html (659 words)

	Find in a Library: The life of Marquis Shigenobu Okuma, a maker of new Japan
		Find in a Library: The life of Marquis Shigenobu Okuma, a maker of new Japan
		The life of Marquis Shigenobu Okuma, a maker of new Japan
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		She enjoyed her life and will be greatly missed," her family said.
		Rosko is survived by her husband, Larry Rosko of Kenai; son, David Hendrickson of Kenai; grandson, Erik Hendrickson of Homer; brothers, Katsunobu Okuma, Shin Okuma, Shigenobu Ito and Shigeyuki Okuma, all of Tokyo; and sisters, Hideko Wakatsuki, Yoriko Fujiyama and Eiko Yamada, all of Tokyo.
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		SIPs: horse beauty, clothing depot, wicker trunk, itinerant entertainers, dancing girl
		CAPs: Okuma Shigenobu, Izu Peninsula, Nagaoka Hot Springs, Yodo River, Hail Amida Buddha (more)
		Okuma Shigenobu, Izu Peninsula, Nagaoka Hot Springs, Yodo River, Hail Amida Buddha, Tokyo Station
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	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2002028844 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2002028844
		Table of contents for Recent advances in the research of affective disorder in Japan / editors, Teruo Okuma, Shigenobu Kanba, Yuichi Inoue.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy037/2002028844.html (62 words)

	Geometry.Net - Philosophers Books: Bacon Roger
		Human Bullets: A Soldier's Story of Port Arthur
		by Tadayoshi Sakurai, Tadyoshi Sakurai, Shigenobu Okuma, Masujiro Honda, Alice Mabel Bacon, Roger J. Spiller
		For those familiar with the Russo-Japan War you will be very familiar with the centerpoint of the book: the battle of Port Arthur.
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