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Hirobumi Ito
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Hirobumi Ito Hirobumi Ito (1841-1909) was a Japanese statesman and one of the younger leaders...and the restoration of the governing power to the emperor. Hirobumi Ito was born the son of a peasant named Juzo Hayashi on Sept. 2, 1841...
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Ito
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ito city (1990 pop. 71,223), Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Izu Peninsula and the Sagami Sea. It is an important fishing port and hot spring resort.
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Ito, Hirobumi
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Ito, Hirobumi (1841–1909) Japanese statesman. The leading figure in the modernization of Japan after the Meiji Restoration...
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International Trade Organization
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...the International Trade Organization (ITO) was to be a specialized agency of the...policies. Negotiations to establish the ITO began in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1947...Cuba. Opposition to the charter of the ITO soon emerged, especially in the U.S...
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Kimmochi Saionji
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Career In 1882 Saionji accompanied Hirobumi Ito to Europe on his constitutional research mission...Japanese War, minister of education in the second Ito Cabinet. It was thus natural for Saionji to assist Ito in founding the Seiyukai party in 1900 and...
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Kimmochi Saionji, Prince
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...accompanied his friend and patron, Prince Ito, to Europe to study foreign governments. He served in several cabinets under Ito and was president of the privy council (1900-1903). He succeeded Ito as president of the Seiyukai party in 1903...
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World Trade Organization
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...of the International Trade Organization (ITO) at the UN Conference on Trade and Employment in Havana, Cuba, in 1948. The ITO charter covered trade in goods and services...agreement. GATT, a part of the proposed ITO, survived as a treaty agreement among twenty...
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The World Trade Organization (WTO)
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations
...Woods' Conference. While the terms of the ITO charter were being drafted and debated...agreement to serve until the time that the ITO would be put in place. However, when the...decided not to submit the charter creating the ITO to the US Senate for ratification (since...
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...for an international trade organization (ITO) was set forth in December 1945, but the U.S. Congress failed to ratify the ITO in 1948. Rather than try to create another...organization, diplomats decided to make the ITO's charter the basis of GATT, which the...
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Shigenobu Okuma
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...inclined to challenge the conservative and autocratic ideals of Hirobumi Ito . In 1881, Okuma publicly urged the government to set up a parliament and embarrassed the Ito clique by exposing their fraudulent scheme to sell government assets in Hokkaido...
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