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In 1873, Count Itagaki with his friends had sent in a memorial to the government praying for the establishment of a representative assembly, but they had not been heeded by the government.
In the second rank were several men destined afterwards to attain great celebrity the late Prince Ito, Marquis Inouye, Count Okuma, Count Itagaki often spoken of as the "Rousseau of Japan" and several others. *The distinction between Court nobles and territorial nobles had been abolished in 1871. The first five, however, were pre-eminent at the moment when Korea sent her offensive message.
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