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COUNT JUTARO KOMURA (1855- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 892 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT JUTARO See also:KOMURA (1855- )  , See also:Japanese states-See also:man, was See also:born in Hiuga . He graduated at Harvard in 1877, and entered the See also:foreign See also:office in See also:Tokyo in 1884 . He served as See also:charge d'affaires in See also:Peking, as Japanese See also:minister in See also:Seoul, in Washing-ton, in St See also:Petersburg, and in Peking (during the Boxer trouble), earning in every See also:post a high reputation for See also:diplomatic ability . In 1901 he received the See also:portfolio of foreign affairs, and held it throughout the course of the negotiations with See also:Russia and the subsequent See also:war (1904-5), being finally appointed by his See also:sovereign to meet the See also:Russian plenipotentiaries at See also:Portsmouth, and subsequently the See also:Chinese representatives in Peking, on which occasions the Portsmouth treaty of See also:September 1905 and the Peking treaty of See also:November in the same See also:year were concluded . For these services, and for negotiating the second Anglo-Japanese See also:alliance, he received the Japanese See also:title of See also:count and was made a K.C.B. by See also:King See also:Edward VII . He resigned his portfolio in 1906 and became privy councillor, from which post he was transferred to the See also:embassy in See also:London, but he returned to Tokyo in 1908 and resumed the portfolio of foreign affairs in the second See also:Katsura See also:cabinet .

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