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The [[Meiji Emperor]] visited the territory for the first time in [[1881]].

The [[Meiji Emperor]] visited the territory for the first time in [[1881]].

Systems in place throughout much of Japan for the democratic election of representatives for the [[Imperial Diet]] were extended to Hokkaidô beginning in [[1902]].

Systems in place throughout much of Japan for the democratic election of prefectural government were implemented in Hokkaidô in [[1901]], and the democratic election of representatives for the [[Imperial Diet]] beginning in [[1902]] ([[Okinawa prefecture]] saw these same changes some years later, in [[1909]] and [[1912]] respectively).

 

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