Word: hirobumi
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...their part, Japan's top officials eagerly participated in the cultural pillaging, amassing enormous personal collections. When the first Governor General, Ito Hirobumi, was assassinated after a four-year reign, he owned more than 1,000 pieces of celadon. The third Governor General, Masataka Terauchi, assembled 1,855 works of calligraphy, 432 books and 2,000 pieces of celadon, mirrors and other artifacts. Terauchi's collection ended up at Yamaguchi Women's University, according to Nam Yong Chang, a Japanese academic of Korean ancestry, who says only a fraction of the collection was later returned to Korea. Everybody knew what...
...noble-minded Hirobumi Ito (1841-1909), who drafted Japan's toothless constitution; who, almost alone among the Japanese of his time, realized that one might deal with the West "by diplomatic give and take"; and whose civilized hopes were used to throw dust in the eyes of the Western World while others plotted the violent future...
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