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[[Image:Itagaki-taisuke.gif|frame|right|Photograph of '''Itagaki Taisuke''']]
* ''Born: [[1837]]''
* ''Born: [[1837]]''
* ''Died: [[1919]]''
* ''Died: [[1919]]''
* ''Japanese'': 板垣 退助 ''(Itagaki Taisuke)''
* ''Japanese'': 板垣 退助 ''(Itagaki Taisuke)''
A high ranking samurai from [[Tosa province|Tosa]], Itagaki was responsible for reorganizing Tosa's forces prior to the outbreak of the [[Boshin War]] where he played a major role in leading the campaigns against the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] forces. After the [[Meiji Restoration|Restoration]], he played key roles in both the Tosa and national governments. He resigned from the Meiji government in protest of the decision not to go to war with Korea, but subsequently returned to government and held various cabinet posts until his retirement in [[1900]].
A prominent [[Taisho period|Taishô]] liberal, he pushed for a number of liberal policies, including extending the full rights and privileges of citizenship to [[Taiwan]]ese and [[Colonial Korea|Koreans]], a proposal which was proposed in 1914 but ultimately quashed after coming up against considerable opposition.<ref>[[Mark Peattie]], "Japanese Attitudes toward Colonialism, 1895-1945," in Peattie and Ramon Myers (eds.), ''The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945'', Princeton University Press (1984), 103.</ref>
A high ranking samurai from [[Tosa province|Tosa]], Itagaki was responsible for reorganizing Tosa's forces prior to the outbreak of the [[Boshin War]] where he played a major role in leading the campaigns against the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] forces. After the [[Meiji Restoration|Restoration]], he played key roles in both the Tosa and national governments. He resigned from the Meiji government in protest of the decision not to go to war with Korea, but subsequently returned to government and held various cabinet posts until his retirement in [[1900]].
==References==
==References==
*[[Romulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
*[[Romulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
*Jansen, Marius B. ''Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration''. Columbia University Press, 1994.
*Jansen, Marius B. ''Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration''. Columbia University Press, 1994.
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