Ōkubo Toshimichi

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Ōkubo Toshimichi was a leading Meiji-era Japanese statesman and key architect of the modernization and centralization of Japan after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese statesman
Meiji oligarch
human
advocated rapid industrialization of Japan
state-led economic development
ally Itō Hirobumi
Kido Takayoshi
Saigō Takamori
Yamagata Aritomo
architectOf abolition of the han system
centralized modern bureaucracy in Japan
creation of prefectural system in Japan
land tax reform in early Meiji Japan
birthDate 1830-09-26
birthPlace Kagoshima, Japan
Kagoshima Domain
surface form: "Satsuma Domain"
burialPlace Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo
causeOfDeath assassination
countryOfCitizenship Japan
deathDate 1878-05-14
deathPlace Tokyo
surface form: "Tokyo, Japan"
domainOfActivity government
politics
educatedAt Satsuma domain school
era Meiji era
surface form: "Meiji period"
ethnicGroup Japanese
familyName Ōkubo NERFINISHED
from Kagoshima Prefecture NERFINISHED
givenName Toshimichi
hasWorkLocation Tokyo
influenced formation of modern Japanese state
later Meiji leaders
languageSpoken Japanese
mannerOfDeath killed by samurai opponents
memberOf Meiji oligarchy
Kagoshima Domain
surface form: "Satsuma Domain leadership"
movement Meiji Restoration
surface form: "Meiji reform movement"

sonnō jōi movement
name Ōkubo Toshimichi
nativeName Ōkubo Toshimichi
surface form: "大久保利通"
notableFor centralization of the Japanese state
leading role in the Meiji Restoration
modernization of Japan
opposed Tokugawa shogunate
participatedIn Meiji Restoration
overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate
positionHeld Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan
surface form: "Home Minister of Japan"

Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
surface form: "Lord of Home Affairs"

de facto leader of the Meiji government
member of the Council of State
reasonForTravel study Western political and economic systems
religion likely Shinto-Buddhist (typical of samurai of his era)
socialClass samurai
supported Emperor Meiji
traveledTo Europe
United States of America
surface form: "United States"

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Emperor Meiji associatedWith Ōkubo Toshimichi
Boshin War keyFigure Ōkubo Toshimichi
Ōkubo Toshimichi name Ōkubo Toshimichi
Ōkubo Toshimichi nativeName Ōkubo Toshimichi
this entity surface form: "大久保利通"
Iwakura Mission participant Ōkubo Toshimichi
Kido Takayoshi workedWith Ōkubo Toshimichi

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