Nobutaka Ike
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LOCATION: Stanford, CA, United States
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, California. Author of The Beginnings of Political Democracy in Japan and others.
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Ii Naosuke was a Japanese feudal lord and statesman who was responsible for Japan’s signing the first treaty of commerce with the United States (1858), opening the country to Western influence, and for the last attempt at reasserting the traditional political role of the Tokugawa (the dynasty of…
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