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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

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Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyJapanese History

ISBN10: 1138205915
ISBN13: 9781138205918
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 29 2016
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
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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