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He was born in Satsuma Province (now Kagoshima prefecture) as the son of samuraiSamurai ( or sometimes ) is a common term for a warrior in pre-industrial Japan. A more appropriate term is bushi (lit. warrior or armsman") which came into use during the Edo period. However, the term "samurai" now usually refers to warrior nobility, not who served the ShimazuThe Shimazu clan was the family of the daimyo of the Satsuma Han in Japan. The founder, Shimazu Tadahisa ( 1179 1227), was a shugo daimyo during the Kamakura period, ruling Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga Provinces. The 19th head, Yoshihiro ( 1535 1619), was th clan. After he fought in the Boshin war as a Satsuma samurai, he studied in several governmental schools in TokyoTokyo (; Tokyo lit. eastern capital) is the capital of Japan as well as the most populous conurbation in Japan, and the world's largest metropolitan area by population with 33,750,000 people living within its urban influence. A little more than 12 million successively. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1874. He was Minister of the Navy from 1898 to 1906, during those years he prepared the Russo-Japanese war and showed strong leadership in the Japanese navyThe Imperial Japanese Navy IJN ( or ) was the navy of Japan before 1945. The opening of Japan Japan built her first ocean-going Western-style warships in the beginning of the 17th century, during her first period of contacts with the West. In 1614, the Da. He found the talent of Togo HeihachiroRusso-Japanese War. Togo Heihachiro ( Togo Heihachiro 1846 1934) was a Japanese admiral and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. Early life Togo was born on 22 December 1847 in the Kachiyacho district of city of Kagoshima in Satsuma province (modern-day as an admiral and appointed him chief admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

He became a count on September 21 1907.

As a politician he pursued not only the profit of military offices but attempted to keep the balance between them and other parts of the goverment. He also understood the public claim for democracy and constitutional governance. During his first office as the prime minister, he abolished the rule that both the minister of the Navy and the minister of the Army should be military officers who had not retired yet. But he resigned because of the Siemens scandal, a scandal in which he had received a bribe from Siemens concerning with the naval ships' purchase.

In 1923 he was again apointed prime minister and showed leadership in the restoration of Tokyo which had been heavily damaged with the Great Kanto earthquake. He attempted to reform the electoral system and to give the vote to all adult men without limitation. But he should have resigned again. On December 27, Namba Daisuke tried to assasinate the Prince Regent Hirohito. All the cabinet resigned with the idea it was their responsibility for not preventing this case.

Shortly before his death in 1933, he was awarded the Supreme Order.