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Aritomo Yamagata

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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 political ideas and favoring military expansion abroad and authoritarian government at home, he supported Japanese military control of Taiwan, Korea, and Manchuria. As home minister (1883-87) he dissolved the new political parties and repressed the agrarian movement. In 1900, while premier, he ruled that... Read more
Yamagata Aritomo
Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922) Japanese soldier and statesman. A member of a samurai family, he was an early opponent of the westernization... Read more
Aritomo Yamagata
Aritomo Yamagata Aritomo Yamagata (1838-1922) was a Japanese general...influences on the government. Aritomo Yamagata was born the son of a low-ranking...Further Reading Roger F. Hackett, Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan, 1838-19... Read more

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; ...Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist, 1811; Alexander John Ellis (Sharpe), philologist and mathematician, 1814; Prince Aritomo Yamagata, Japanese military leader and prime minister, 1838; Karl Landsteiner, pathologist, 1868; Count John McCormack, tenor... Read more
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; ...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 itself... Read more
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and their Legacies in Italy and Japan.(Book Review)
; ...Thus, part 1 focuses on the fundamental initial choices made upon constitution of the nation by Ito Hirobumi and Yamagata Aritomo (in Japan) and by Count Cavour (Italy). Particularly notable sections focus on the birth of corporatism in the interwar... Read more
Anglo-Japanese treaty of alliance: January 30th, 1902. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
; ...alliance 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... Read more
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan.(Book Review)
; ...Samuels 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 are... Read more
Birthdays
; ...Oswald Achenbach, landscape painter, 1905; Carlos I, King of Portugal, and the Crown Prince, assassinated 1908; Prince Aritomo Yamagata, Japanese military commander and prime minister, 1922; Piet Mondrian, abstract painter, 1944; Buster (Joseph Francis... Read more
Lightning Rod.(Japan's foreign minister Makiko Tanaka)
; ...detained local lords to prevent them from meddling in state affairs. After the Meiji Restoration, noblemen led by Baron Aritomo Yamagata undermined elections with a law that barred politicians from making personnel appointments in ministries. The rules... Read more

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