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Itō Hirobumi
First prime minister of Japan
Not to be confused with Hirofumi Itō.
In this Japanese name, the surname is Itō.
PrinceItō Hirobumi (Japanese: 伊藤 博文, Hepburn: Itō Hirofumi, 16 October 1841 – 26 October 1909), born Hayashi Risuke (Japanese: 利助 林, Hepburn: Risuke Hayashi), was a Japanese politician who served as the first prime minister of Japan from 1885 to 1888, and later from 1892 to 1896, in 1898, and from 1900 to 1901. He was a leading member of the genrō, a group of senior statesmen that dictated policy during the Meiji era.
Born into a poor farming family in the Chōshū Domain, Itō and his father were adopted into a low-ranking samurai family. After the opening of Japan in 1854, he joined the nationalist sonnō jōi movement before being sent to England to study at University College London in 1863. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Itō was appointed the junior councilor for foreign affairs in the newly formed Empire of Japan. In 1870, he traveled to the United States to study Western currency, and subsequently helped establish Japan's taxation system in 1871. Itō then set off on another overseas trip with the Iwakura Mission to the U.S. and Europe. Upon his return to Japan in 1873, he became a full councilor and public works minister.
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This is the seventh in a series of articles highlighting the life of Ahn Jung-geun on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his assassination of the first Japanese resident-general of Korea, Hirobumi Ito, on Oct. 26, 1909, in China.
By Franklin Rausch
Contributing Writer
At first glance it is not clear why Ahn Jung-geun assassinated Hirobumi Ito. Ito was the framer of the Meiji constitution of 1889 which, though not without restrictions, guaranteed such basic rights as freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion. Ito was known as a moderating force within Japanese politics.
He tried to prevent the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 through diplomacy and compromise.
He stood against more aggressive forces within the Japanese government and prevented the annexation of Korea following Japan's victory in its war with Russia.
He lacked the racist anti-Korean opinions shared by many of his colleagues and believed ― at least for a time ― that Korea could modernize just as Japan had. He had a reputation for patriotism and financial honesty. Lastly, he was not even resident-general when Ahn shot him. So why then was he a target? What did Ahn hope to accomplish by killing him?
15 Crimes Ito Had
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