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HAYASHI, TADASU, COUNT (1850– )

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HAYASHI, TADASU, See also:COUNT (1850– ) , See also:Japanese states-See also:man, was See also:born in See also:Tokyo (then Yedo), and was one of the first batch of students sent by the See also:Tokugawa See also:government to study in See also:England. He returned on the See also:eve of the abolition of the Shogunate, and followed See also:Enomoto (q.v.) when the latter, sailing with the Tokugawa See also:fleet to See also:Yezo, attempted to establish a See also:republic there in See also:defiance of the newly organized government of the See also:emperor. Thrown into See also:prison on See also:account of this affair, Hayashi did not obtain See also:office until 1871. Thereafter he See also:rose rapidly, until, after a See also:long See also:period of service as See also:vice-See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs, he was appointed to represent his See also:country first in See also:Peking, then in St See also:Petersburg and finally in See also:London, where he acted an important See also:part in negotiating the first Anglo-Japanese See also:Alliance, for which service he received the See also:title of See also:viscount. He remained in London throughout the Russo-Japanese See also:War, and was the first Japanese See also:ambassador at the See also:court of St See also:James after the war. Returning to Tokyo in 1906 to take the See also:portfolio of foreign affairs, he remained in office until the resignation of the Saionji See also:cabinet in 1908. He was raised to the See also:rank of count for eminent services performed during the war between his country and See also:Russia, and in connexion with the second Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1905.

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