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Ito Hirobumi

Ito Hirobumi

1841 CE1909 CE · Edo (Tokyo)

Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909) was a leading Japanese statesman of the Meiji era who became the country's first prime minister in 1885 and served four terms in that office. A central architect of Japan's modern state, he played the principal role in drafting the 1889 Meiji Constitution, which established a parliamentary system under a strong emperor. Following Japan's growing control over Korea, he served as the first resident-general there from 1905; he was assassinated in 1909 at Harbin by the Korean independence activist An Jung-geun.

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