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Itō Hirobumi
伊藤博文
Born
1841-10-16
October 16, 1841
Tsukari
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Died
1909-10-26
October 26, 1909
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Harbin railway station
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Resting place
Nishiōi
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Occupations
Diplomat
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Politician
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Organization
Chōshū Five
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Notable work
Kokuze Kōmoku
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Q11495255
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Title
Chairman of the Privy Council of Japan
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Lord of Home Affairs
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Prime Minister of Japan
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governor of Hyōgo Prefecture
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member of the House of Peers
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Spouse(s)
Itō Umeko
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Sumiko Ito
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Children
Asako Nishi
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Bunkichi Itō
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Ikuko Suematsu
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Father
Itō Jūzō
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Awards
Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
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Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold
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Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
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Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
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Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III
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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
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Knight grand cross of the order of the crown of Italy
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Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky
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Knight of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
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Order of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy)
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Order of the Red Eagle
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Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, 1st class
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Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class
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Order of Vasa
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Silver Medal with Yellow Ribbon
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First prime minister of Japan
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Prince
Itō Hirobumi
Junior First Rank
伊藤 博文
President of the Privy Council
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In office
14 June – 26 October 1909
Monarch
Meiji
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Preceded by
Yamagata Aritomo
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Succeeded by
Yamagata Aritomo
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In office
13 July 1903 – 21 December 1905
Monarch
Meiji
Preceded by
Saionji Kinmochi
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Succeeded by
Yamagata Aritomo
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In office
1 June 1891 – 8 August 1892
Monarch
Meiji
Preceded by
Oki Takato
Succeeded by
Oki Takato
In office
30 April 1888 – 30 October 1889
Monarch
Meiji
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Oki Takato
Prime Minister of Japan
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In office
19 October 1900 – 10 May 1901
Monarch
Meiji
Preceded by
Yamagata Aritomo
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Succeeded by
Saionji Kinmochi
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(Acting)
In office
12 January 1898 – 30 June 1898
Monarch
Meiji
Preceded by
Matsukata Masayoshi
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Succeeded by
Ōkuma Shigenobu
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In office
8 August 1892 – 31 August 1896
Monarch
Meiji
Preceded by
Matsukata Masayoshi
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Succeeded by
Kuroda Kiyotaka
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(Acting)
In office
22 December 1885 – 30 April 1888
Monarch
Meiji
Preceded by
Position established
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
(as
Shogun
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Succeeded by
Kuroda Kiyotaka
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Additional positions
President of the House of Peers
In office
24 October 1890 – 20 July 1891
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Hachisuka Mochiaki
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Minister for Foreign Affairs
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of Japan
In office
September 1887 – February 1888
Prime Minister
Himself
Preceded by
Inoue Kaoru
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Succeeded by
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Personal details
Born
Hayashi Risuke
1841-10-16
16 October 1841
Tsukari
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, Suō, Tokugawa shogunate (present-day
Yamaguchi Prefecture
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, Japan)
Died
26 October 1909
(1909-10-26)
(aged 68)
Harbin
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, Heilongjiang, Qing dynasty
Manner of death
Assassination by gunshot
Resting place
Hirobumi Itō Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan
Political party
Independent
(Before 1900)
Constitutional Association of Political Friendship
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(1900–1909)
Spouse
Itō Umeko
(1848–1924)
Children
3 sons, 2 daughters
Parent
Itō Jūzō
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(father)
Alma mater
University College London
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Signature
Prince
Itō Hirobumi
伊藤 博文
; 16 October 1841 – 26 October 1909)
was a Japanese politician who served as the first
Prime Minister of Japan
Wikidata
from 1885 to 1888, and later from 1892 to 1896, in 1898, and from 1900 to 1901. He was a leading member of the
Genrō
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, a group of senior statesmen that dictated policy during the
Meiji era
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. Even out of office as
Head of government
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, Itō continued to wield vast influence over Japan's policies as a permanent imperial adviser (
genkun
) and frequent president of the emperor's
Privy Council
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. A staunch
monarchist
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and leading proponent of Japan's
Westernization
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, Itō favored a large, all-powerful
Bureaucracy
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that answered solely to the emperor, and opposed the formation of
political parties
Born into a poor farming family in the
Chōshū Domain
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, Itō and his father were adopted into a low-Ranking
Samurai
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family. He joined the nationalist
sonnō jōi
movement after the
Opening of Japan
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in 1854, and in 1863 was sent to England to study at
University College London
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. After the
Shimonoseki campaign
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of 1864, in which four Western powers bombed Chōshū, he resolved to set Japan on a path of Westernization. After the
Meiji Restoration
of 1868, Itō was appointed the junior councilor for foreign affairs in the new
Empire of Japan
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. In 1870, he traveled to the
United States
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to study Western currency, and in 1871 helped establish Japan's taxation system. He then set off on another overseas trip with the
Iwakura Mission
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to the U.S. and Europe, and upon his return to Japan in 1873, became a full councilor and public works minister. Itō also served as home minister from 1878, and by 1881 he had become the
De facto
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leader of the
Meiji oligarchy
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After the advent of the
Freedom and People's Rights Movement
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and political parties, in 1881 Itō promised a constitution and national assembly. In 1882, he embarked on a trip to Europe to study its constitutions; his preference was for
a Prussian-style one
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which would retain considerable power for the emperor and limit party involvement in the cabinet. He replaced religious references with those rooted in the Japanese concept of
kokutai
("national polity"), which became the constitutional justification for imperial authority. In 1884, Itō reorganized
the peerage
to fill the seats in the anticipated
House of Peers
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. In 1885, he replaced the
Daijō-kan
with
a cabinet
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composed of ministry heads, and himself took up the new position of prime minister. When the draft constitution was ready in 1888, Itō established a supra-cabinet
Privy Council
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to discuss and approve it on the emperor's behalf. He resigned as prime minister so he could head this new body. The
Meiji Constitution
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was proclaimed in 1889, and the
Imperial Diet
was first assembled in 1890.
From 1892 to 1896, Itō was again prime minister. During his term, Japan defeated China in the
First Sino-Japanese War
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of 1894–1895, and he was involved in the
Treaty of Shimonoseki
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, which annexed
Taiwan
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to the empire and freed Korea from the
Chinese tributary system
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. During Itō’s third term as prime minister in 1898, his tax policies were opposed by political parties and he soon resigned. In 1900, he started his fourth term and formed his own pro-government party, the
Rikken Seiyūkai
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, but continued to face opposition, and resigned in 1901. After Japan's victory in the
Russo-Japanese War
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of 1904–1905, Itō became the
resident-general of Korea
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, a nation which Japan desired to annex. Korea was declared a Japanese protectorate in 1905, and in 1907 Itō obliged
its emperor
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to step down. Itō was made a prince that year and resigned as resident-general in 1909; later that year, he was assassinated while in
Manchuria
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by
a Korean nationalist
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Biography
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Early years
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Itō Hirobumi as a samurai in his youth
Hayashi Risuke (
林利助
) was born on 16 October 1841, in Tsukari,
Kumage
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Suō Province
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(present-day
Hikari
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Yamaguchi Prefecture
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), the eldest son of farmer
Hayashi Jūzō
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and his wife Kotoko. After his father went bankrupt and left for
Hagi, Yamaguchi
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in 1846, he went to live at his mother's parental home. In 1849, Jūzō invited the family to Hagi and the family reunited. There Risuke entered Kubo Gorō Saemon's school. Because the family was poor, when Risuke was 12, Jūzō was adopted by samurai servant Mizui Buhē. In 1854, Mizui Buhē was adopted by
Samurai
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foot soldier (
Ashigaru
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) Itō Yaemon from Aihata,
Saba
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. Mizui Buhē was renamed Itō Naoemon, Jūzō took the name Itō Jūzō, and Hayashi Risuke was renamed Itō Shunsuke at first, then Itō Hirobumi. These adoptions allowed both Hirobumi and his father Jūzō to rise to the samurai class and become
ashigaru
Jūzō was the biological son of Hayashi Sukezaemon
林助左衛門
, a 5th generation descendant of Hayashi Nobuyoshi
林信吉
who was a member of the
Hayashi clan of Owari
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尾張林氏
Clockwise from top left:
Endō Kinsuke
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Nomura Yakichi
Itō Shunsuke
Yamao Yōzō
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, and
Inoue Monta
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, photographed in 1863
He was a student of
Yoshida Shōin
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at the
Shōka Sonjuku
and later joined the
Sonnō jōi
movement ("to revere the Emperor and expel the barbarians"), together with
Katsura Kogorō
. Active in the movement, he took part in an incendiary attack of the British legation on 31 January 1863 led by
Takasugi Shinsaku
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, and in the company of
Yamao Yōzō
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attacked and mortally wounded the head of the
Wagakukōdansho
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institute on 2 February 1863, believing a false report that the institute was looking into ways of toppling the Emperor.
Itō was chosen as one of the
Chōshū Five
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who studied at
University College London
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in 1863, and the experience in
Great Britain
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eventually convinced him Japan needed to adopt Western ways.
In 1864, Itō returned to Japan with fellow student
Inoue Kaoru
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to attempt to warn Chōshū Domain against going to war with the foreign powers (the
Bombardment of Shimonoseki
) over the right of passage through the
Straits of Shimonoseki
. At that time, he met
Ernest Satow
for the first time, later a lifelong friend.
Political career
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Rise to power
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Photo of Itō (second from right, standing) alongside other members of the
Iwakura Mission
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After the
Meiji Restoration
of 1868, Itō was appointed governor of
Hyōgo Prefecture
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, junior councilor for Foreign Affairs, and sent to the United States in 1870 to study Western currency systems. Returning to Japan in 1871, he established Japan's taxation system. With the advice of
Edmund Morel
, a chief engineer of the railway department, Itō endeavored to found the
Public Works
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together with
Yamao Yozo
. Later that year, he was sent on the
Iwakura Mission
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around the world as vice-envoy extraordinary, during which he won the confidence of
Ōkubo Toshimichi
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, one of the leaders of the
Government of Meiji Japan
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In 1873, Itō was made a full councilor, Minister of Public Works, and in 1875 chairman of the first Assembly of Prefectural Governors. He participated in the
Osaka Conference of 1875
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. After Ōkubo's assassination, he took over the post of
Home Minister
and secured a central position in the Meiji government. By 1881, he successfully pushed for the resignation of
Ōkuma Shigenobu
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, thereby allowing him to emerge as the
De facto
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leader of the Meiji government.
Itō went to Europe in 1882 to study the constitutions of those countries, spending nearly 18 months away from Japan. While working on a constitution for Japan, he also wrote the first
Imperial Household Law
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and established the Japanese
Peerage
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system (
kazoku
) in 1884.
In 1885, he negotiated the
Convention of Tientsin
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with
Li Hongzhang
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, normalizing Japan's diplomatic relations with
Qing-dynasty
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China. In the same year, In 1885, Itō established a
cabinet system
of government based on European ideas, replacing the
Daijō-kan
as the nation's main policy-making organization.
As Prime Minister
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Itō Hirobumi as prime minister (c. 1880s)
On 22 December 1885, Itō became the first
Prime Minister of Japan
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, as the head of
First Itō Cabinet
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. The first Itō Cabinet endeavored to establish institutions preparatory to the promulgation of the Constitution, and in February 1886 established a system of government for each ministry, and in March, the Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) was established, and in March of the following year, a national academic association was established and supported it. On the other hand, Inoue Kaoru was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and was given responsibility for amending the treaty, but the amendment proposed by Inoue included the appointment of foreign judges, leading to the problem of appointing private officials. foreign legislation, leading to In July 1887, a revision meeting aimed at foreign countries was cancelled, and Inoue Kaoru resigned in September, leading to defeat. In June of the same year, he began studying the draft constitution with Itō Miyoji, Inoue Tsuyoshi, Kaneko Kentaro and others in Tsushima.
On 30 April 1888, Itō resigned as prime minister, but headed the new
Privy Council
to maintain power behind-the-scenes. In 1889, he also became the first
Genrō
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. The
Meiji Constitution
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was promulgated in February 1889. He had added to it the references to the
kokutai
or "national polity" as the justification of the emperor's authority through his divine descent and the unbroken line of emperors, and the unique relationship between subject and sovereign.
This stemmed from his rejection of some European notions as unfit for Japan, as they stemmed from European constitutional practice and Christianity.
He remained a powerful force while
Kuroda Kiyotaka
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and
Yamagata Aritomo
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, his political nemeses,
according to whom?
were prime ministers.
During
Itō's second term as prime minister
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(8 August 1892 – 31 August 1896), he supported the
First Sino-Japanese War
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and negotiated the
Treaty of Shimonoseki
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in March 1895,
made Taiwan a Japanese colony
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with his ailing foreign minister
Mutsu Munemitsu
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. In the
Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
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of 1894, he succeeded in removing some of the onerous
Unequal treaty
clauses that had plagued Japanese foreign relations since the start of the
Meiji era
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During
Itō's third term as prime minister
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(12 January – 30 June 1898), he was forced to contend with the rise of
political parties
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. Both the
Liberal Party
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and the
Shimpotō
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opposed his proposed new land taxes, and in retaliation, Itō dissolved the
lower house
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of the
Imperial Diet
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and called for
general election
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. As a result, both parties merged into the
Kenseitō
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, won a majority of the seats, and forced Itō to resign. This lesson taught Itō the need for a pro-government political party, so he organized the
Rikken Seiyūkai
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(Constitutional Association of Political Friendship) in 1900. Itō's womanizing was a popular theme in editorial cartoons and in parodies by contemporary comedians, and was used by his political enemies in their campaign against him.
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Itō returned to office as
prime minister for a fourth term
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from 19 October 1900, to 10 May 1901, this time facing political opposition from the
House of Peers
. Weary of political back-stabbing, he resigned in 1901, but remained as head of the Privy Council as the premiership alternated between
Saionji Kinmochi
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and
Katsura Tarō
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Itō in the later years of his political career
Toward the end of August 1901, Itō announced his intention of visiting the
United States
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to recuperate. This turned into a long journey in the course of which he visited the major cities of the United States and
Europe
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. He set off from
Yokohama
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on 18 September, traveled through the U.S. to
New York City
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, and received an honorary doctorate (
LL.D.
) from
Yale University
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in late October.
He then sailed to
Boulogne
, reaching Paris on 4 November. On 25 November, he reached
Saint Petersburg
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, having been asked by the new prime minister, Katsura Tarō, to sound out the Russians, entirely unofficially, on their intentions in the Far East. Japan hoped to achieve what it called
Man-Kan kōkan
, the exchange of a free hand for Russia in Manchuria for a free hand for Japan in Korea, but Russia, feeling greatly superior to Japan and unwilling to give up the use of Korean ports for its navy, was in no mood to compromise. Foreign minister
Vladimir Lamsdorf
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"thought that time was on the side of his country because of the
[Trans-Siberian] railway
and there was no need to make concessions to the Japanese".
Itō left empty-handed for
Berlin
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(where he received honors from
Kaiser Wilhelm
),
Brussels
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, and London. Meanwhile, Katsura had decided that
Man-Kan kōkan
was no longer desirable for Japan, which should not renounce activity in Manchuria.
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In Britain, Itō met with
Lord Lansdowne
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, which helped lay the groundwork for the
Anglo-Japanese Alliance
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announced early the following year. The failure of his mission to Russia was "one of the most important events in the run-up to the
Russo-Japanese War
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".
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While Prime Minister, Itō invited Professor
George Trumbull Ladd
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of
Yale University
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to serve as a diplomatic adviser to promote mutual understanding between Japan and the United States. Lectures delivered by Ladd in Japan revolutionized its educational methods; he was the first foreigner to receive the Third Class honor (conferred by the Emperor in 1899) and the Second Class honor (in 1907) in the
Orders of the Rising Sun
. He later wrote a book on his personal experiences in Korea and with Resident-General Itō.
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When Ladd died, half his ashes were buried in a Buddhist temple in Tokyo and a monument was erected to him.
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As Resident-General of Korea
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Prince Itō and the Crown Prince of Korea
Yi Un
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On 9 November 1905, following the Russo-Japanese War, Itō arrived in
Hanseong
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and gave a letter from the Emperor of Japan to
Gojong
, Emperor of Korea, asking him to sign the
Japan–Korea Protectorate Treaty
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, which would make Korea a Japanese
protectorate
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. On 15 November 1905, he ordered Japanese troops to encircle the
Korean imperial palace
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On 17 November 1905, Itō and Japanese Field Marshal
Hasegawa Yoshimichi
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entered the Jungmyeongjeon Hall, a Russian-designed building that was once part of
Deoksu Palace
, to persuade Gojong to approve the treaty, but the Emperor refused. Itō then pressured the Emperor's ministers with the implied, and later stated, threat of bodily harm, to sign the treaty.
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Five ministers
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signed an agreement that had been prepared by Itō in the Jungmyeongjeon. The agreement gave Imperial Japan complete responsibility for Korea's foreign affairs,
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and placed all trade through Korean ports under Imperial Japanese supervision.
After the treaty had been signed, Itō became the first
Resident-General of Korea
on 21 December 1905. In 1907, he urged
Emperor Gojong
to abdicate in favor of his son
Sunjong
and secured the
Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907
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, thereby giving Japan authority to dictate Korea's internal affairs.
While Itō was firmly against Korea falling into China or Russia's
Sphere of influence
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, he also opposed its annexation, advocating instead that the territory should be treated as a protectorate. When the cabinet voted in favor of annexing Korea, he proposed that the process be delayed in the hopes that the decision could eventually be reversed.
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However, Itō ultimately changed his mind and approved plans to have the region annexed on 10 April 1909. Despite changing his position, he was forced to resign on 14 June 1909 by the
Imperial Japanese Army
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(one of the foremost advocates for Korea's annexation).
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His assassination is believed to have accelerated the path to the
Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty
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Assassination
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Last image of Itō arriving at Harbin Station shortly before his assassination on 26 October 1909
Itō arrived at the
Harbin railway station
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on 26 October 1909 for a meeting with
Vladimir Kokovtsov
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, a Russian representative in
Manchuria
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. There
An Jung-geun
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, a
Korean nationalist
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and
independence activist
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fired six shots, three of which hit Itō in the chest. He died shortly thereafter. His body was returned to Japan on the
Imperial Japanese Navy
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cruiser
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, and he was accorded a
state funeral
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on 4 November 1909 at Hibiya Park.
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An Jung-geun later listed "
15 reasons
why Itō should be killed" at his trial.
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On 14 February 1910, Ahn was sentenced to death by hanging, Yu to two years in prison, and Cao and Liu to one year and six months in prison for murder and crimes against the Imperial Japanese Government.
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In Japan
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A Series C 1,000 yen note of Japan, with a portrait of Itō Hirobumi
A portrait of Itō Hirobumi was on the obverse of the Series C
1,000 yen note
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from 1963 until a new series was issued in 1984.
The publishing company
Hakubunkan
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takes its name from
Hakubun
, an alternate pronunciation of Itō's
Given name
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Itō Hirobumi former residence in Hagi
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The house where Itō lived from age 14 in Hagi after his father was adopted by Itō Naoemon still exists, and is preserved as a museum. It is a one-story house with a thatched roof and a gabled roof, with a total floor area of 29
tsubo
and is located 150 meters south of the
Shōkasonjuku Academy
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. The adjacent villa is a portion of a house built by Itō in 1907 in Oimura, Shimoebara-gun, Tokyo (currently
Shinagawa, Tokyo
). It was a large Western-style mansion, of which three structures, a part of the entrance, a large hall, and a detached room, were transported Hagi. The large hall has a mirrored ceiling and its wooden paneling uses 1000-year old cedar trees from
Yoshino
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The buildings were collectively designated a
National Historic Site
in 1932.
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In Korea
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The
Annals of Sunjong
record that
Gojong
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held a positive view of Itō's governorship. In an entry for 28 October 1909, almost three years after being forced to abdicate his throne, the former emperor praised Itō, who had died two days earlier, for his efforts to develop Japanese civilization in Korea. However, the integrity of Joseon
silloks
dated after the
Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905
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is considered dubious by Korean scholars due to the influence exerted over record-keeping by the Japanese.
Itō has been portrayed several times in
Korean cinema
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. His assassination was the subject of North Korea's
An Jung-gun Shoots Itō Hirobumi
in 1979 and South Korea's
Thomas Ahn Joong Keun
in 2004; both films made his assassin
An Jung-geun
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the protagonist. The 1973 South Korean film
Femme Fatale: Bae Jeong-ja
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is a biopic of Itō's alleged adopted Korean daughter
Bae Jeong-ja
(1870–1952).
Itō argued the
Pan-Asian
view that if East Asians did not co-operate closely with one another, Japan, Korea and China would all fall victim to Western imperialism. Initially, Gojong and the Joseon government shared that belief and agreed to collaborate with the Japanese military.
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Korean intellectuals had predicted that the victor of the Russo-Japanese War would assume hegemony over their peninsula, and as an Asian power, Japan enjoyed greater public support in Korea than Russia. However, policies such as land confiscation and the drafting of forced labor turned Korean popular opinion against the Japanese, a trend exacerbated by the arrest or execution of those who resisted.
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An Jung-geun
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was also a proponent of what was later called Pan-Asianism. He believed in a union of the three East Asian nations to repel Western imperialism and restore peace in the region.
Itō memorial temple built
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On 26 October 1932, the Japanese unveiled in Seoul the Hakubun-ji
博文寺
Buddhist Temple dedicated to Prince Itō. Full official name "Prince Itō Memorial Temple (伊藤公爵祈念寺院)". Situated in then Susumu Tadashidan Park on the north slope of Namsan, which after liberation became Jangchungdan Park 장충단 공원. From October 1945, the main hall served as student home, ca. 1960 replaced by a guest house of the Park Chung-Hee administration, then reconstructed and again a student guest house. In 1979 it was incorporated into the grounds of the Shilla Hotel then opened. Several other parts of the temple are still at the site.
Genealogy
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Hayashi family
∴Hayashi Awajinokami
Michioki
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┃    ┃    ┃Hayasi Magoemon ┃     ┃     ┃    ┃     ┃
Michimoto Michiyo Michisige     Michiyoshi Michisada Michikata Michinaga Michisue
┃Hayasi Magosaburō
Nobukatsu
┃Hayasi Magoemon
Nobuyoshi
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┃Hayasi Magoemon ┃     ┃    ┃
Nobuaki      Sakuzaemon Sojyurō  Matazaemon
┃                    ┃
┃                    ┃
┃Hayasi Hanroku            ┃
Nobuhisa                 Genzō
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┃     ┃              ┃
Sōzaemon  Heijihyōe          Yoichiemon
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┃Hayasi Hanroku ┃      ┃   ┃
Rihachirō     Riemon    Masuzō Sukezaemon
┃adopted son of Hayasi Rihachirō
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┃Itō ┃Hayasi Shinbei's wife ┃Morita Naoyoshi's wife
Jyuzō woman          woman
┃'''Itō
Hirobumi'''
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┃Itō   ┃Kida  ┃Itō   ┃   ┃
Hirokuni Humiyoshi Shinichi woman woman
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┃Itō   ┃Shimizu ┃Itō     ┃Itō  ┃Itō   ┃Itō   ┃Itō   ┃Itō    ┃Itō   ┃Itō    ┃   ┃  ┃
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┃Itō   ┃   ┃  ┃   ┃  ┃
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┃Itō   ┃
Tomoaki  woman
Itō family
Itō Yaemon
Itō Naoemon (Mizui Buhei)Yaemon's adopted son
Itō Jyuzō (Hayashi Jyuzo)Naoemon's adopted son
Itō Hirobumi (Hayashi Risuke)
Honours
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Peerages
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Count (7 July 1884)
Marquess (5 August 1895)
Prince (21 September 1907)
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Grand Cordon of the
Order of the Rising Sun
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(2 November 1877)
Grand Cordon of the
Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers
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(11 February 1889)
Grand Cordon of the
Order of the Chrysanthemum
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(5 August 1895)
Collar of the Order of the Chrysanthemum (1 April 1906)
Court Ranks
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Fifth Rank, junior grade (1868)
Fifth Rank (1869)
Fourth Rank (1870)
Senior fourth Rank (18 February 1874)
Third Rank (27 December 1884)
Second Rank (19 October 1886)
Senior second Rank (20 December 1895)
Junior First Rank
(26 October 1909; posthumous)
Foreign
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German Empire
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Order of the Crown
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(1886)
Grand Cross of the
Order of the Red Eagle
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(22 December 1886); in Brilliants (December 1901)
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Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Grand Cross of the
Order of the White Falcon
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(29 September 1882)
Russian Empire
Knight of the
Order of the White Eagle
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(17 September 1883)
Knight of the
Order of St. Alexander Nevsky
(19 March 1896); in Brilliants (28 November 1901)
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Sweden-Norway
: Commander Grand Cross of the
Order of Vasa
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(25 May 1885)
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Austria-Hungary
Knight 1st Class of the
Order of the Iron Crown
(27 September 1885)
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Siam
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Order of the Crown of Siam
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Spain
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Order of Charles III
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(26 October 1896)
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Belgium
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Royal Order of Leopold
(4 October 1897)
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France
Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour
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(29 April 1898)
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Qing dynasty
Order of the Double Dragon
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, Class I Grade III (5 December 1898)
31
United Kingdom
: Honorary Grand Cross of the
Order of the Bath
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(civil division) (14 January 1902)
32
29
Kingdom of Italy
Knight of the
Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
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(16 January 1902)
33
29
Korean Empire
: Grand Cordon of the
Order of the Golden Ruler
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(18 April 1904)
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Popular culture
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Year
Title
Portrayed by
1980
The Battle of Port Arthur
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Hisaya Morishige
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2001–02
Empress Myeongseong
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Yoon Joo-sang
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2009–11
Clouds Above the Slope
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Gō Katō
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2010
Ryōmaden
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Hiroyuki Onoue
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2014
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends
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Yukiyoshi Ozawa
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2015
Burning Flower
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Hitori Gekidan
2018
Segodon
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Kenta Hamano
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2018
Mr. Sunshine
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Kim In-woo
ko
simple
2022
Hero
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Kim Seung-rak
ko
simple
2024
Harbin
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Lily FRanky
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Japanese students in Britain
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... initially many Koreans supported Japanese against Russians, and helped Japanese military. ... Many intellectuals had predicted that whoever wins the
Russo-Japanese War
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, Joseon would be controlled by a victor. Still, they had hoped for the Asian power's victory. .... On 14 April 1904, Japan demanded unrestricted fishing rights all across Korean peninsular. On 28 June, Japan asked for the right to use every unclaimed land in Korea. Many Japanese gangsters had beaten Korean citizens in numerous occasions. ... —1904, U.S. diplomatic cable by Horace Allen, then U.S. representative in Korea. [...러·일전쟁 때 많은 조선인이 일본측에 동조했고, 일본군을 도왔다... 많은 지식인이 전쟁이 끝난 후에 조선은 승자에게 굴(屈)하고 주권을 상실할 것이라 예측했음에도, 러시아보다는 '동족(同族)'인 일본이 승리하기를 바랐다. ... (1) 1904년 4월14일. 일본은 조선반도 전역에서 거의 무제한적인 어업권을 요구했다. (2) 6월28일. 그들은 지금 조선 내 모든 황무지를 점거하고 사용할 수 있는 권리를 요구했다. (3) 많은 수의 일본인 불량배 노동자들이 조선 사람들을 괴롭히고 있다. ...
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