| Question 1: After the defeat of the Tokugawa, Yamagata together with Saigō Tsugumichi was selected by the leaders of the new government to go to ________ in 1869 to research European military systems. | |||
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| Question 2: In 1883 Yamagata was appointed to the post of ________, the highest bureaucratic position in the government system before the Meiji Constitution of 1889. | |||
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| Question 3: Yamagata was born in a lower-ranked samurai family from Hagi, the capital of the feudal domain of Chōshū (present-day ________). | |||
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| Question 4: During the ________, the revolution of 1867 and 1868 often called the Meiji Restoration, he was a staff officer. | |||
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| Question 5: In 1882, he became president of the Board of Legislation (Sanjiin) and as Home Minister (1883–87) he worked vigorously to suppress ________ and repress agitation in the labor and agrarian movements. | |||
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| Question 6: He showed his leadership on military issues as acting War Minister and Commanding General during the ________; as the Commanding General of the Japanese First Army during the Russo-Japanese War; and as the Chief of the General Staff Office in Tokyo. | |||
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| Question 7: A dispute with prime minister Marquis ________ over the military budget became a constitutional crisis, known as the Taisho Crisis after the newly enthroned Emperor. | |||
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| Question 8: Yamagata became the third Prime Minister of Japan after the opening of the Imperial Diet under the ________ from 24 December 1889 to 6 May 1891. | |||
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| Question 9: He is considered political and military ideological ancestor of the ________ as he traced the first lines of a national defensive strategy against Russia after Russo-Japanese War. | |||
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| Question 10: Yamagata like many Japanese was strongly influenced by the recent striking success of ________ in transforming itself from an agricultural state to a leading modern industrial and military power. | |||
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