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The regional warlords banded together and overthrew Shogun Yoshinobu and forced him to resign authority.
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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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Commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy during the First Sino-Japanese War
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He was in command of a warship during the Sino-Japanese War that sank a British merchant ship carrying Chinese troops
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He was appointed the first Japanese governor-general of Taiwan after the Japanese invasion of Taiwan
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The first Resident-General of Korea following the end of the Russo-Japanese War