Hara Takashi
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Hara Takashi, informally known as Hara Kei, was a Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 until his assassination. Hara was the first commoner and first Christian appoi
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Hara during his premiership
Hara Takashi during his premiership
Tōkyō Station in 1914
Terauchi Masatake
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Count Terauchi Masatake was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1916 to 1918. He was a Gensui in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Hara Takashi
…lost its majority control of the Diet in the 1915 general elections, but regained its majority in the 1917 general elections. In 1918, Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake fell from office as a result of the Rice Riots of 1918, and Hara was appointed as his successor on 28 September. It was the first cabinet headed by a…
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Portrait by Okada Saburōsuke
Terauchi Masatake (left) with General Kodama Gentarō (right) in 1904