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See also:COUNT JUTARO See also:KOMURA (1855- )
, See also:Japanese states-See also:man, was See also:born in Hiuga
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He graduated at Harvard in 1877, and entered the See also:foreign See also:office in See also:Tokyo in 1884
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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
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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
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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: |
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