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    Gensui Prince Yamagata Aritomo (山縣 有朋, 14 June 1838 – 1 February 1922) also known as Prince Yamagata Kyōsuke, was a Japanese statesman and military commander...
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    implemented after his death by Yamagata Aritomo. Aritomo has been described as the father of the Imperial Japanese Army. Yamagata had commanded mixed commoner-samurai...
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    command of General Yamagata Aritomo and marines under the command of Admiral Kawamura Sumiyoshi outnumbered Saigō 60-to-1. However, Yamagata was determined...
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    against Imperial Japanese Army troops under the command of General Yamagata Aritomo and Admiral Kawamura Sumiyoshi. The battle culminated in the annihilation...
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    Christianity. He remained a powerful force while Kuroda Kiyotaka and Yamagata Aritomo, his political nemeses,[according to whom?] were prime ministers. During...
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  • include: Aritomo Gotō (五藤 存知, 1888–1942), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral Yamagata Aritomo (山縣 有朋, 1838–1922), Japanese general and Prime Minister of Japan This...
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    Kanesuke and Yamagata Toshiko, the elder sister of Yamagata Aritomo. As the latter had no children, he was adopted by Yamagata Aritomo in 1861 to carry...
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    the Prime Minister of Japan. Retrieved 10 April 2023. 第3代 山縣 有朋 [3rd Yamagata Aritomo] (in Japanese). Official website of the Prime Minister of Japan. Retrieved...
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    tensions. The Prime Minister of Japan at that time was General Count Yamagata Aritomo, who entered into a confrontation with the legislative body over military...
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    garden in Kyoto, owned by political and military leader Gensui Prince Yamagata Aritomo, designed by Ogawa Jihei and built between 1894 and 1898. It is an...
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    Meiji constitution to consolidate and preserve Imperial power. Even Yamagata Aritomo and other oligarchs that had been fundamentally opposed to political...
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  • central government. In the spring of 1871, Ōkubo, Kido, Inoue Kaoru, Yamagata Aritomo, Saigō Takamori, Ōyama Iwao, Sanjō Sanetomi and Iwakura held a secret...
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    modern Criminal procedures laws. In 1884 he caught the attention of Yamagata Aritomo who appointed him head of the police forces in Japan, despite his relative...
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    over by Kawakami Yaichi and Taki Yataro, followed by Akane Taketo and Yamagata Aritomo on October. In February 1864, Takasugi tried to dissuade Kijima Matabei...
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    Takasugi Shinsaku, Katsura Kogorō, Inoue Kaoru, Itō Hirobumi and Yamagata Aritomo later became widely known, and virtually all of the survivors of the...
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    oligarchs (genrō) against democratic encroachments. However, unlike Yamagata Aritomo, Ōyama was reserved and tended to shun politics. From 1914 to his death...
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    Kiheitai was taken over again by Akane Taketo as the third leader with Yamagata Aritomo as the commander. In February 1865, a Second Kiheitai was formed in...
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    Itō Hirobumi, Matsukata Masayoshi, Kido Takayoshi, Itagaki Taisuke, Yamagata Aritomo, Mori Arinori, Ōkubo Toshimichi, and Yamaguchi Naoyoshi. The foundation...
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    Sanjō Sanetomi as acting prime minister. Then, on 24 December 1889, Yamagata Aritomo, an army Field Marshal (Gensui) became the next prime minister of Japan...
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  • Yamagata Cabinet may refer to: First Yamagata Cabinet, the Japanese government led by Yamagata Aritomo from 1889 to 1891 Second Yamagata Cabinet, the Japanese...
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    its superior numbers and in the strength of the defenses. Prince Yamagata Aritomo's First Army of the Imperial Japanese Army converged on Pyongyang from...
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    Articles 62–72 of the Meiji Constitution of 1890. Matsukata followed Yamagata Aritomo as Prime Minister from 6 May 1891, to 8 August 1892, and followed Ito...
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    000, and the Imperial Japanese Army, led by Arisugawa Taruhito and Yamagata Aritomo, numbered 90,000. The first days of the battle were marked by heavy...
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    ever occupying it. With donations by Ōyama Iwao, Saigō Tsugumichi and Yamagata Aritomo, a statue of the prince on horseback was made and erected in 1903 by...
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    it would make the Qing empire suspicious. Following Inoue's advice, Yamagata Aritomo, the Minister of the Interior, turned down the request to incorporate...
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    the superiority of the Prussian military model and in February 1872, Yamagata Aritomo and Oyama Iwao proposed that the Japanese military be remodeled along...
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    establishment of the Meiji government, Saigō went to Europe with General Yamagata Aritomo to study European military organizations, tactics and technologies...
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    State, the Supreme War Council was established under the leadership of Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922), a Chōshū native who has been credited with the founding...
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    conscription was formally adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army under Yamagata Aritomo in 1873. Soon after Ōmura's death, a bronze statue was built in his...
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    Meiji Restoration, or their heirs, were ennobled. Ito Hirobumi and Yamagata Aritomo were ennobled as counts in 1884, promoted to marquesses in 1895 and...
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