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Okubo Toshimichi
Okubo Toshimichi was a samurai of the Satsuma Domain and one of the leading statesmen of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. With Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi he engineered the alliance of Satsuma and Choshu and the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate, then directed the new government's reforms, including the abolition of the domains and a new land tax. He opposed an invasion of Korea, crushed the Satsuma Rebellion and was assassinated in Tokyo in 1878.
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