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Several powerful daimyo
The regional warlords banded together and overthrew Shogun Yoshinobu and forced him to resign authority. -
Various resentful samurai
Let a brief rebellion in opposition to new measures that stated all Japanese were elgally equal as commoners and placed limitations on travel and trade -
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Itoh Sukeyuki
Commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy during the First Sino-Japanese War -
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Togo Heihachiro
He was in command of a warship during the Sino-Japanese War that sank a British merchant ship carrying Chinese troops -
Admiral Kabayama Sukenori
He was appointed the first Japanese governor-general of Taiwan after the Japanese invasion of Taiwan -
Itō Hirobumi
The first Resident-General of Korea following the end of the Russo-Japanese War