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Ito Hirobumi
Prince was a samurai of Chōshū domain, Japanese statesman, four time Prime Minister of Japan , genrō and Resident-General of Korea. Itō was assassinated by An Jung-geun, a Korean nationalist who was against the annexation of Korea by the Japanese Empire...
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1885
12.22.1885
Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1898
1.12.1898
Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
1909
10.26.1909
Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.