He was trained by the kampaku Takatsukasa Masamichi and wrote the opinion for the imperial Court reformation.
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Soon after his appointment as Minister of the Right in 1871, he led the two-year around-the-world journey known as the Iwakura mission, visiting the United States and several countries in Europe with the purpose of renegotiating the unequal treaties and gathering information to help effect the modernization of Japan.
Iwakura mission | Tomomi Itano | Iwakura Mission | Iwakura |