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Itō Hirobumi - Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution

Itō Hirobumi - Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesJapanese History

ISBN10: 041583886X
ISBN13: 9780415838863
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 20 2014
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

A brilliant and influential statesman, Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909) was the first prime minister of Japan's modern state. This biography focuses especially on Ito's thought and vision for Japan's modernisation. It outlines Ito's life: the son of a poor farmer, who studyed in England and returned convinced that the only viable path for Japan was nation building by introducing Western civilisation. From then on, Ito became a powerful force behind the construction of the reformed Japanese state, establishing the 1889 Meiji Constitution and founding a new type of constitutional party which became the Liberal Democratic Party, dominating post-war Japanese politics.

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