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Ōmura Masujirō
Ōmura Masujirō, born Murata Zōroku, was a Japanese physician and scholar of Western learning who became the founder of Japan's modern army. He served the Uwajima domain, where he helped build a steamship, and later the Chōshū domain, whose forces he reorganised and led to victory over the shogunate in 1866. As vice-minister of military affairs in the Meiji government he planned a conscript army, but was assassinated in 1869.
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