π―π΅ 1912-1926 Taisho Democracy
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- prominent member of Meiji oligarchy
- early advocate of Western science and culture in Japan
- considered a ==centrist==
- 1896: re-organized Rikken Kaishinto into Shimpoto (Progressive Party)
- 1897: Foreign Minister and Agriculture and Commerce Minister
- 1898: resigned from both ministerial posts
- 1898: co-founded Kenseito by merging his Shimpoto with Itagaki Taisukeβs Jiyuto + in charge of Kenseito
- 1908: retirement from politics
- 1914: return to politics in the Taisho era at request of Emperor Taisho, after the 1914 Taisho Constitutional Crisis (the government of Yamamoto GonnohyΕe was forced to resign in the wake of the Siemens scandal)