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*''Born: [[1847]]''
*''Died: [[1889]]''
*''Japanese'': [[森]]有礼 ''(Mori Arinori)''
Mori Arinori is considered the godfather of Japan's [[Meiji period]] [[Meiji education|"modern" education system]].
As a young man, Mori was one of a number of students sent by [[Satsuma han]] secretly to England for study. After some time in the United States, he returned to Japan and entered into the [[Meiji government]]. He was sent to Washington DC in [[1871]] as Japan's first minister to the US, and while there oversaw a number of surveys of the American educational system.
He later served terms as ambassador to China, [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs|vice-minister of foreign affairs]], and ambassador to England, among a number of other positions, before becoming [[Ministry of Education|Minister of Education]] in [[1885]]. He held that position until his assassination in [[1889]].
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==References==
*[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 114-115.
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[[Category:Samurai]]