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Count Yamamoto Gonnohyōe

prime minister of Japan
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(Hakushaku), Gonnohyōe also spelled:
Gombee
Born:
Nov. 26, 1852, Kagoshima, Japan
Died:
Dec. 8, 1933, Tokyo (aged 81)

Count Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (born Nov. 26, 1852, Kagoshima, Japan—died Dec. 8, 1933, Tokyo) was a Japanese naval officer who served two terms as prime minister of his country (1913–14; 1923–24). Yamamoto’s well-placed political contacts aided his rapid rise in the navy. During the Sino-Japanese War he served as aide-de-camp to general headquarters and in 1898 was appointed minister of the navy in the Japanese cabinet with the rank of vice admiral. Promoted to admiral in 1904, he became a member of the government’s high-ranking Military Council. In 1913 popular discontent with the oligarchic nature of Japanese politics caused the fall ...(100 of 279 words)

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