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• Yamamoto Gonnohyoe
  ...s the 16th [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, serving another term as 22nd Prime Minister. ...he [[1868]] [[Boshin War]]. He served for a time as [[Ministry of the Navy|Minister of the Navy]], and in that position promoted Admiral [[Togo Heihachiro|Tôg
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• Aranpo
  Aranpô was the first "prime minister" (国相) of the Okinawan kingdom of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], serving under King ...a that same year, once again, this time in his official capacity as "prime minister."
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• Hatoyama Ichiro
  ...Hatoyama Iichirô]]. His grandsons Yukio and Kunio also served in top-level minister positions.
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• Cheng Fu
  ...ng Mào]], by taking on some of the responsibilities of the office of prime minister.
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• Kuroda Kiyotaka
  Kuroda Kiyotaka was the 2nd [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, and before that, director of the [[Hokkaido Development Bureau] ...Kuroda succeeded [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]] to become the second Prime Minister of the Empire of Japan; he would serve in that position for only about a ye
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• Ketsumeidan
  ...], Director-General of Mitsui [[kazoku|Baron]] [[Dan Takuma]], and [[Prime Minister]] [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]], all in 1932.
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• Ando Teruko
  ...o|Tokyo's]] [[Shinbashi]] district, and later became a mistress of [[Prime Minister]] [[Katsura Taro|Katsura Tarô]].
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• Wang Mao
  ...time, [[Cheng Fu]], took on some responsibilities of the position of prime minister to help lighten Wang's load of administrative duties.<ref name=smits112/>
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• Hirata Tosuke
  ...griculture]] and later [[Naimusho|Minister of the Interior]] under [[Prime Minister]] [[Katsura Taro|Katsura Tarô]]. He was also a member of the [[Iwakura Mis ...ral cooperatives. During Katsura's second administration, Hirata was named Minister of the Interior in [[1908]]. He helped develop the [[Imperial Rescript of 1
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• Yi Yuwon
  Yi Yuwon was a Korean scholar-official who served as prime minister under [[Emperor Gojong]] of the [[Korean Empire]]. Yi is also known as a no
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• Goshoin atai
  ...kyu Kingdom]], which handed down directives from the ''[[sessei]]'' (prime minister / regent) and ''[[Sanshikan]]'' (Council of Three).
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• Saionji Kinmochi
  ...t|Meiji state]]. The last of the surviving ''genrô'', he served as [[Prime Minister]] twice.
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• Ikeda Shigeaki
  ...f Finance|Minister of Finance]] and [[Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce|Minister of Agriculture and Commerce]]. ...ster]] [[Konoe Fumimaro]], serving concurrently as Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. Three years later, he was named a member of th
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• Ya Lanpao
  ...ô, or Yà Lánpáo, was a Chinese-born official who served as the first prime minister (''ôsô'' or ''kokusô'') of the Okinawan kingdom of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]]. H
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• Sadayakko
  ...ng, [[judo]], and horseback riding. She later became a mistress to [[Prime Minister]] [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]], before marrying actor & theatre troupe le
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• Tokonami Takejiro
  ...d of the Local Affairs Bureau of the [[Home Ministry]], and then Vice Home Minister, before becoming head of the Railways Department. He was elected to the [[House of Representatives]] in 1914, and then became Minister of Home Affairs for a time. He helped found the Seiyûhon-tô political par
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• Hatoyama Kazuo
  ...Kunio]] and [[Hatoyama Yukio]] all served as cabinet ministers or [[prime minister]]s.
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• Yamagata Aritomo
  Yamagata Aritomo was a [[Meiji period]] statesman, serving as [[Prime Minister]] for several terms, and playing a prominent role in a number of significan In the early 1870s, Aritomo served as Vice Minister of Military Affairs, and was among the chief figures advocating for [[milit
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• Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
  ...ce Asaka. The building was later used as an official residence for [[Prime Minister]]s and as an official state guesthouse before being turned over to become a
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• Hotta Masatsune
  ...and served as parliamentary Navy vice-minister in the cabinets of [[Prime Minister]]s [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]], [[Saito Makoto|Saitô Makoto]], and [[Okada Keisuke
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• Matsukata Kojiro
  The third son of [[Prime Minister]] [[Matsukata Masayoshi]], he took over control of the Kawasaki Corporation
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• Ito Hirobumi
  Itô Hirobumi was Japan's first modern [[prime minister]], serving in that post four times,<ref>Plaques on-site at University Colle ...a Mission]] in [[1871]]-[[1873]], Itô was named [[Ministry of the Interior|Minister of the Interior]] in [[1878]], succeeding [[Okubo Toshimichi|Ôkubo Toshimi
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• 1876
  *1876/3/24 The Resident Japanese Diplomatic Minister in China requests to meet with Ryukyuan envoys present in Beijing, but is d *1876/3/28 The Japanese mission in China sends by telegraph to [[Foreign Minister]] [[Terajima Munenori]] asking what to do about the Ryukyuan envoys in Beij
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• Asakura Fumio
  He also produced statues of [[Prime Minister]] [[Hatoyama Ichiro|Hatoyama Ichirô]] and his wife Kaoru, which stand at [
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• Treaty of Portsmouth
  ...he primary mediator between Japanese [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs|Foreign Minister]] [[Komura Jutaro|Komura Jutarô]]<ref>[[Marius Jansen]], "Japanese Imperia ...t major urban riot of the [[Meiji period]], citizens set fire to the prime minister's residence, electric streetcars, and police boxes.<ref>[[Anne Walthall]],
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• Komura Jutaro
  ...ut of the hands of other foreign access or control. In a speech as Foreign Minister in [[1909]], he continued to see immigration as chiefly a source of diploma
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• 1885
  *[[John Bingham]] is succeeded as US minister to Japan. ...et system is instituted and [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]] is named [[Prime Minister]].
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• Hatoyama Hall
  ...ect [[Okada Shinichiro|Okada Shin'ichirô]], commissioned by future [[Prime Minister]] [[Hatoyama Ichiro|Hatoyama Ichirô]]. It was at the Hatoyama home that di
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• Soejima Taneomi
  ...ernment|Meiji oligarchy]], including serving as [[Foreign Ministry|Foreign Minister]] during some of the key foreign affairs matters of the early 1870s. ...[1868]] alongside [[Fukuoka Takachika]]. He rose quickly to become Foreign Minister in [[1871]], the same year that a number of [[Miyako Islands|Miyako Islande
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• Hara Kei
  Hara Kei, also known as Hara Takashi, was the first commoner to become prime minister of Japan. He served as a government bureaucrat before becoming Home Minister in [[1906]]. During his term in that position (until [[1908]]), he strength
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• Kikuin
  ...rvice of King Shô Nei and served as ''[[kokuso|kokusô]]'' (roughly, "prime minister") until [[1616]].
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• Meiji government
  ...inistries: the [[Ministry of the Left]], [[Ministry of the Center]], and [[Minister of the Right]].<ref name=gordon64/> The government was then reorganized again in [[1885]], with a prime minister presiding over a cabinet made up of the heads of the various ministries. Th
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• 1840
  *Prime Minister [[Kuroda Kiyotaka]] is born (d. 1900).
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• Tei Fuku
  ...u<!--饒州-->. He was simultaneously given the honorary titles/posts of Prime Minister (国相) and ''changshi'' of the Left (左長史).<ref>Tomiyama, 47.</ref>
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• Huai Ji
  ...kings of the first [[Sho dynasty|Shô dynasty]] to a position akin to Prime Minister.
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• Tokutomi Soho
  ...ister]] [[Matsukata Masayoshi]] beginning in [[1897]], serving under Prime Minister [[Katsura Taro|Katsura Tarô]] as well, in the early years of the 20th cent
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• Governor-General of Taiwan
  ...d the post. He was appointed by [[Hara Kei]], Japan's first civilian prime minister. Peattie, 108.</ref>
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• Goto Shojiro
  Gotô Shôjirô was a [[Tosa han|Tosa]] samurai who became in essence, "prime minister" of the Tosa government and hence, the principal advisor to [[Yamauchi Yodo
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• 1835
  *[[Matsukata Masayoshi]], 4th Prime Minister of Japan, is born (d. 1924).
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• 1913
  *[[Yamamoto Gonnohyoe|Yamamoto Gonnohyôe]] is named [[Prime Minister]].
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• 1896
  * 1896/5/14 Russian minister Weaver and [[Komura Jutaro]] sign a memorandom about [[Joseon]]. *1896/11/13 [[Kishi Nobusuke]], future [[Prime Minister]], born (d. 1987/8/7)
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• 1887
  ...Ministry of Education|Minister of Education]] [[Mori Arinori]] and [[Prime Minister]] [[Ito Hirobumi|Itô Hirobumi]] undertake an official inspection tour of [
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• Kaiki
  ...ûkyû government to the Chinese-style posts of ''changshi'' (長史) and "prime minister" (国相).<ref>Tomiyama, 48.</ref> Though figures like Kaiki ostensibly ser
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• 1891
  *Future [[Prime Minister]] [[Konoe Fumimaro]] is born (d. 1945)
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• Nakijin Chofu
  ...[[1879]], when Matsuda presented him with a formal letter from the [[Prime Minister]] of Japan reproaching Ryûkyû for breaking the prohibition imposed by Jap
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• 1900
  ...by putting into place a policy that only active duty officers can serve as Minister of Army or Navy. This means that the military can break any cabinet by forc *1900/8/25 Former [[Prime Minister]] [[Kuroda Kiyotaka]] dies (b. 1840).
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• Moriyama-juku
  Moriyama is the hometown of Uno Sôsuke, who served briefly as [[Prime Minister]] in 1989. A historic ''[[machiya]]'' associated with him is open to the pu
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• Emperor Taisho
  ...vention, the flourishing of Taishô Democracy, the assassination of [[Prime Minister]] [[Hara Takashi]] in 1921, and the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923.
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• Matsuda Michiyuki
  ...大丞). Acting in accordance with "disposal of Ryûkyû" plans articulated by [[Minister of the Interior]] [[Okubo Toshimichi|Ôkubo Toshimichi]], Matsuda met with ...esented to [[Nakijin Chofu|Prince Nakijin]] a formal letter from the Prime Minister reproaching Ryûkyû for breaking the prohibition imposed by Japan on sendi
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• 1850
  *1850/2/14 [[Kiyoura Keigo]], [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, is born (d. 1942).
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