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The brilliant and influential statesman, Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909),
and the first prime minister of Japan's modern state, has been
poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record
straight about Ito's thought and vision for Japan's modernisation
based on research in primary sources. It outlines Ito's life: the
son of a poor farmer, he showed exceptional talent as a boy and was
sent to study in Europe and the United States. He returned home
convinced that Western civilisation was the only viable path for
Japan. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Ito became a
powerful intellectual and political force behind reforms of
Japanese laws and institutions aimed to shape a modern government
based on informed leadership and a knowledeable populace. Among his
many achievements were the establishment of Japan's first
constitution-the Meiji Constitution of 1889, and the founding in
1900 of a new type of constitutional party, the Rikken Seiyukai
(Friends of Constitutional Government), which, reformulated after
1945, became the Liberal Democratic Party that has dominated
Japanese politics in the postwar period. Concerning Ito's role as
Japanese Resident-General in Korea from 1905, the author argues
that Ito's aim, not understood by either the Japanese home
government or Koreans themselves, was not to colonize Korea. He was
determined to modernise Korea and consolidate further
constitutional reforms in Japan. This aim was not shared by others,
and Ito resigned in 1909. He was assassinated the same year in
Manchuria by a Korean nationalist. The Japanese language edition of
this book is a bestseller in Japan, and it received the Suntory
Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, one of Japan's most
prestigious publishing awards.
The brilliant and influential statesman, Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909),
and the first prime minister of Japan's modern state, has been
poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record
straight about Ito's thought and vision for Japan's modernisation
based on research in primary sources. It outlines Ito's life: the
son of a poor farmer, he showed exceptional talent as a boy and was
sent to study in Europe and the United States. He returned home
convinced that Western civilisation was the only viable path for
Japan. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Ito became a
powerful intellectual and political force behind reforms of
Japanese laws and institutions aimed to shape a modern government
based on informed leadership and a knowledeable populace. Among his
many achievements were the establishment of Japan's first
constitution-the Meiji Constitution of 1889, and the founding in
1900 of a new type of constitutional party, the Rikken Seiyukai
(Friends of Constitutional Government), which, reformulated after
1945, became the Liberal Democratic Party that has dominated
Japanese politics in the postwar period. Concerning Ito's role as
Japanese Resident-General in Korea from 1905, the author argues
that Ito's aim, not understood by either the Japanese home
government or Koreans themselves, was not to colonize Korea. He was
determined to modernise Korea and consolidate further
constitutional reforms in Japan. This aim was not shared by others,
and Ito resigned in 1909. He was assassinated the same year in
Manchuria by a Korean nationalist. The Japanese language edition of
this book is a bestseller in Japan, and it received the Suntory
Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, one of Japan's most
prestigious publishing awards.
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