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Itagaki Taisuke

1837–1919 · 19th century

Itagaki Taisuke was a samurai of the Tosa domain who commanded troops for the new imperial government in the Boshin War of 1868–1869 and served in the early Meiji government. Leaving it in 1873 over a proposed expedition against Korea, he led the Freedom and People's Rights Movement for an elected assembly and founded Japan's first national political party, the Liberal Party, in 1881.

Itagaki Taisuke
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