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Aritomo Yamagata
Aritomo Yamagata , 1838-1922, Japanese soldier and statesman, chief founder of the modern Japanese army. A samurai of Choshu, he took part in the Meiji restoration. He studied military science in Europe and returned in 1870 to head the war ministry. Strongly influenced by Prussian military and polit... Read more
Meiji
Meiji , 1852-1912, reign name of the emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912; his given name was Mutsuhito. He ascended the throne when he was 15. A year later the shogun fell, and the power that had been held by the Tokugawa military house was returned to the emperor. This was the Meiji restoration... Read more

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Aritomo Yamagata
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Aritomo Yamagata Aritomo Yamagata (1838-1922) was a Japanese general and a member of the oligarchy which dominated Meiji Japan. He was instrumental in building a modern army, strengthening the power of the civil and military bureaucracy...
Kimmochi Saionji
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was appointed a commander, assisted by Aritomo Yamagata, 10 years his senior. After 10 years...alternating with those of Taro Katsura, Yamagata's protégé. Yet on Yamagata's recommendation Saionji became genro...
Kei Hara
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1914. Hara was elevated to the premiership in September 1918 with the reluctant approval of conservative oligarch Aritomo Yamagata, who disliked seeing a "party man, " a member of the Lower House, and a commoner become premier, but he got...
Hirohito
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Regent On February 4, 1918, Hirohito became engaged to Princess Nagako, daughter of Prince Kuniyoshi Kuninomiya. Aritomo Yamagata and others raised objections to the match on the grounds that Nagako was descended from the daimyos of Satsuma...
Taro Katsura
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Taro Katsura , 1847-1913, Japanese statesman. A Choshu clansman, and a protégé of Aritomo Yamagata , he served as war minister, then (1901-6) as prime minister. During that administration, with the Anglo...
Meiji
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...advisers known as the genro , or elder statesmen. Under the direction of these oligarchs (among them Hirobumi Ito , Aritomo Yamagata , and Kaoru Inouye ), Japan was transformed into a modern industrial state, and its military power was demonstrated...
genro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Weakened in number by death and political disagreement, surviving members of this oligarchy (among them Hirobumi Ito , Aritomo Yamagata , Kaoru Inouye , and Masayoshi Matsukata ) consolidated power (1881) and established a cabinet form of government...

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Yamagata Aritomo
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922) Japanese soldier and statesman. A member of a samurai family, he was an early opponent of the westernization...
Meiji Constitution
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...was usually dominated by a group of highly influential senior statesmen, including such men as Ito Hirobumi and YAMAGATA ARITOMO , and later fell under military influence. The old constitution was finally replaced by a new JAPANESE CONSTITUTION...
Ito Hirobumi
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...politics of the 1890s had shown the considerable veto power that political parties were able to exercise, and when YAMAGATA ARITOMO had given the armed services the power to break civilian governments, Ito formed (1901) the Seiyukai (Friends...

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Monday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/26/2009; 700+ words ; ...a remote Hindu temple in India. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.-Mexican film star (1905-1983...
Wednesday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/27/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...with seven more arrests made. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.-Mexican film star (1905-1983...
Tuesday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/27/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.-Mexican film star (1905-1983...
Sunday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/27/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...declare independence from China. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.- Mexican film star (1905-1983...
Saturday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/27/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...billion line of credit to Brazil. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.- Mexican film star (1905-1983...
Anglo-Japanese treaty of alliance: January 30th, 1902. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...with Britain, whose imperial grasp he saw was weakening, but he was opposed by the army chief, the formidable Yamagata Aritomo, who argued that the Russians would not stop at Manchuria. Unless prevented, they would move to dominate the whole...
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of East Asian Studies; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...contrasts figures in each country and the choices they made. Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Ito Hirobumi, and Yamagata Aritomo are the critical figures at the founding of each state. Alessando Rossi, Okuo Toshimichi, and Shibusawa Eichi...
Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...factionalism, the army-navy rivalry, and the 26 February 1936 incident are likewise ignored. In addition to confusing Yamagata Aritomo with Yoshida Shoin (39), Edgerton raises the latter from the dead to make him Emperor Meiji's adviser a decade...
The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army of the 1920s.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...1920s represented a major watershed for the army. During that decade the old Meiji military system, associated with Yamagata Aritomo, finally disintegrated and was replaced by a new "imperial army system." Brought about by the military elite...
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/1/1994; 502 words ; ...George Cruikshank, caricaturist and illustrator, 1878; Sir George Gabriel Stokes, mathematician, 1903; Prince Aritomo Yamagata, military commander and prime minister of Japan, 1922; Piet Mondrian, abstract painter, 1944; Buster (Joseph...