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COUNT MUNEMITSU MUTSU (1842-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 100 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT MUNEMITSU See also:MUTSU (1842-1896)  , See also:Japanese states-See also:man, was See also:born in 1842 in Wakayama . A vehement opponent of " See also:clan See also:government "—that is, usurpation of administrative posts by men of two or three fiefs, an abuse which threatened to follow the overthrow of the See also:Tokugawa shogunate—he See also:con-spired to assist See also:Saigo's See also:rebellion and was imprisoned from 1878 until 1883 . While in See also:prison he translated See also:Bentham's Utilitarian-ism . In 1886, after a visit to See also:Europe, he received a See also:diplomatic See also:appointment, and held the See also:portfolio of See also:foreign affairs during the See also:China-See also:Japan See also:War (1894-95), being associated with See also:Prince (then See also:Count) See also:Ito as See also:peace plenipotentiary . He negotiated the first of the revised See also:treaties (tnat with See also:Great See also:Britain), and for these various services he received the See also:title of count . He died in See also:Tokyo in 1896 . His statue in See also:bronze stands before the foreign See also:office in Tokyo .

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