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Word: hirobumi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sketches of a People | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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