Ito+Hirobumi

= __Ito Hirobumi __=

Ito Hirobumi was a samurai who became the prime minister of Japan and helped to write the Meiji Constitution. He traveled to many Western Countries in order to study their constitutions. When he returned, he supervised the writing of the first Japanese constitution. Ito Hirobumi eventually negotiated an agreement between Japan as well as the Western Powers to get to the end of extraterritoriality. He eventually became one of the generals that were stationed in Korea before he was eventually assassinated by a disgruntled Korean.