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Created page with "*''Born: 1840'' *''Died: 1900/8/25'' *''Japanese'': 黒田清隆 ''(Kuroda Kiyotaka)'' Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Prime Minister of Japan, and before that, directo..."
*''Born: [[1840]]''
*''Died: [[1900]]/8/25''
*''Japanese'': [[黒田]]清隆 ''(Kuroda Kiyotaka)''
Kuroda Kiyotaka was a [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, and before that, director of the [[Hokkaido Development Bureau]].
He was parodied in the ''[[Marumaru chinbun]]'' by being represented in political cartoons as a black octopus (''kuroi tako'', a pun on his name); the publication played a significant role in spreading rumors or allegations that he had killed his wife in a drunken fit, and that he was corrupt as a politician, accepting bribes from corporations to cheaply sell them government land in [[Hokkaido]].
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==References==
*Peter Duus, "The Marumaru Chinbun and the Origins of the Japanese Political Cartoon," ''International Journal of Comic Art'' 1 (1999), 49.
*''Died: [[1900]]/8/25''
*''Japanese'': [[黒田]]清隆 ''(Kuroda Kiyotaka)''
Kuroda Kiyotaka was a [[Prime Minister]] of Japan, and before that, director of the [[Hokkaido Development Bureau]].
He was parodied in the ''[[Marumaru chinbun]]'' by being represented in political cartoons as a black octopus (''kuroi tako'', a pun on his name); the publication played a significant role in spreading rumors or allegations that he had killed his wife in a drunken fit, and that he was corrupt as a politician, accepting bribes from corporations to cheaply sell them government land in [[Hokkaido]].
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==References==
*Peter Duus, "The Marumaru Chinbun and the Origins of the Japanese Political Cartoon," ''International Journal of Comic Art'' 1 (1999), 49.