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Count Mutsu Munemitsu (陸奥 宗光, August 20, 1844 – August 24, 1897) was a Japanese diplomat and politician. He became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1890 and worked to revise unequal treaties.
Choshu "Hanbatsu" Genro2 and had as its Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu. It was Mutsu who would a year later successfully nego-tiate the revision of the hated "Unequal Treaties" and who would play an influential role in the Sino- Japanese War of 1894-1895 and in the subsequent Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Triple Interven-tion.
Description. Diplomat, statesman. Born in Wakayama as the son of a samurai of the Wakayama Clan. He took part in the Kaientai in the final days of the Tokugawa regime.
Feb 14, 2019 · This book traces the footsteps of modern Japan's diplomacy by reviewing the extraordinary philosophical and political journey of 19th century Japan’s top diplomat Mutsu Munemitsu who protected the dignity of Japan as a modern nation throughout his professional life.
May 3, 2018 · Mutsu Munemitsu (1844–97) is regarded as one of the most famous foreign ministers in modern Japan. Despite several ordeals and despite his position as an outsider in the Meiji government, he played an influential role not only in domestic but also in foreign affairs of government from the 1880s. The revision of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of ...
Mutsu and his cabinet colleagues confronted was nothing less than a challenge from the Lower House to their monopoly of control over foreign-policy making. When Lower House forces sought in late 1892 to formally question the government's commitment to treaty revision, Mutsu's skillful maneuvers with his friends in the
Toward the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted from his home Kishu-han as a result of his father’s defeat in a power struggle. To avenge this, Mutsu bolstered his talent to become a man of “genius and learning in equal measure.”.
