Itagaki Taisuke

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Itagaki Taisuke was a leading 19th-century Japanese politician and liberal activist who championed constitutional government and civil rights during the Meiji era.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese politician
Meiji-era politician
human
liberal activist
advocatedFor establishment of a national assembly in Japan
expansion of suffrage in Japan
popular sovereignty
burialPlace Gokoku-ji, Tokyo
causeOfResignation opposition to government’s Korea policy (Seikanron dispute)
commemoratedBy statue in Ueno Park, Tokyo
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1837-05-21
dateOfDeath 1919-07-16
domainAllegiance Tosa Domain
era Meiji era
surface form: Meiji period
familyName Itagaki
founded Aikoku Kōtō
Liberal Party (Japan, 1881)
gender male
givenName Taisuke
honorificTitle Count
influenced development of Japanese parliamentary democracy
militaryRank samurai
movement Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
Jiyū Minken Undō
name Itagaki Taisuke NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage Japanese
nobleTitle hakushaku
notableFor advocacy of constitutional government in Japan
founding early political parties in Japan
leadership in the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
promotion of civil rights in Japan
occupation activist
politician
participatedIn Meiji era
surface form: Meiji Restoration
partOf Meiji oligarchy
surface form: Meiji oligarchy (early years)
placeOfBirth Kōchi Prefecture NERFINISHED
Tosa Domain
placeOfDeath Tokyo
politicalIdeology constitutionalism
liberalism
politicalParty Liberal Party (Japan, 1881)
positionHeld Home Minister of Japan
member of the Genrōin
member of the House of Representatives of Japan
resignedFrom Meiji government in protest over foreign policy
slogan Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
surface form: Liberty and People’s Rights
socialClass samurai

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