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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 61 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OKUBO TOSHIMITSU (183o-1878)  ,

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Japanese statesman, a samurai of Satsuma, was one of the. five
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great nobles who led the revolution in 1868 against the shogunate . He became one of the
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mikado's
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principal ministers, and in the Satsuma troubles which followed he was the
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chief opponent of
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Saigo Takamori . But the suppression of the Satsuma
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rebellion brought upon him the
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personal revenge of Saigo's sympathizers, and in the
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spring of 1878 he was assassinated by six clansmen . Okubo was one of the leading men of his
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day, and in 1872 was one of the Japanese
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mission which was sent
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round the
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world to get ideas for organizing the new regime .

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