2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Ito Hirobumi and Politics

Research Project

Project/Area Number	18530099
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Politics
Research Institution	Kokugakuin University
Principal Investigator	SAKAMOTO Kazuto Kokugakuin University, Law faculty, Professor (70178565)
Project Period (FY)	2006 – 2007
Keywords	Ito Hirobumi / Ito's Shinto mondai / Yamagata Aritomo / the Federalist / Seiyukai
Research Abstract	This research is a part of my project of a biographical study on Ito Horobumi, a great statesman in Meiji Japan. This time I focus on Ito's conception of "politics" in order to realize his political behavior well. Firstly I analyzed Ito's leadership in comparison with Yamagata Aritomo, his colleague and rival, in Ito Shinto mondai (Ito's project of farming a new political party) of 1898. Secondly I surveyed Ito's public speeches to know what he was thinking about the politics in that time. Thirdly I try to study how Ito farmed his political thought in his young days. So, I am thinking that the Federalist, not German lemming, was his bible of politics in his life.