Statues of Mutsu Munemitsu ( Right ) and Itō Hirobumi ( Left ) at Shimonoseki

During Itō's second term as prime minister ( August 8, 1892 – August 31, 1896 ), he supported the First Sino-Japanese War and negotiated the Treaty of Shimonoseki in March 1895 with his ailing foreign minister Mutsu Munemitsu.

During the summit between Japanese and Qing representatives in March and April 1895, Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito and Foreign Minister Munemitsu Mutsu were serious about reducing the power of Qing Dynasty on not only Korean Peninsula but also Taiwan islands.

It was signed by Count Ito Hirobumi and Viscount Mutsu Munemitsu for the Emperor of Japan and Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang on behalf of the Emperor of China.

Ito Hirobumi and Mutsu Munemitsu

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A report of the incident was sent by Suematsu Kencho to Mutsu Munemitsu.

Under Mutsu Munemitsu ( 1844 – 1897 ), Hara served as Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs and as ambassador to Korea.

Mutsu Munemitsu was born in Wakayama domain, Kii Province as the sixth son of Date Munehiro, a samurai retainer of the Kii Tokugawa clan.

His father was active in the Sonnō jōi movement, and Mutsu Munemitsu joined forces with Sakamoto Ryōma and Itō Hirobumi in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

* Mutsu, Munemitsu.

Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties.

* Hisahiko Okazaki, Mutsu Munemitsu and His Age, 2010 ( e-book )

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The Modern Political and Constitutional History Collection comprises some 300, 000 items related to Japan's political and legal modernization in the 19th century, including the original document archives of important Japanese statesmen from the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century like Itō Hirobumi, Iwakura Tomomi, Sanjō Sanetomi, Mutsu Munemitsu, Terauchi Masatake, and other influential figures from the Meiji ( 1868 – 1912 ) and Taishō ( 1912 – 1926 ) Periods.

Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi, Yamagata Aritomo, Saionji Kinmochi and Ōkuma Shigenobu, Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu, writer Shimazaki Toson and zaibatsu founder Yasuda Zenjirō had summer residences in Ōiso.

* Mutsu Munemitsu, a diplomat in Japan during the Meiji period

Released in 1871 by then Kanagawa governor Mutsu Munemitsu, he was recruited to work for the Meiji government in 1871, and because of his language abilities and previous overseas experience was selected to accompany the Iwakura mission to Europe and the United States from 1871-1873.

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In 1894, as ambassador to Great Britain, Aoki worked with Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu towards the revision of the unequal treaties, successfully concluding the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation for Japan in London on July 16, 1894.

The city of Mutsu, Aomori, Japan, is a sister city of Port Angeles.

The area that is now Aomori Prefecture continued to be part of Mutsu until the abolition of the han system and the nation-wide conversion to the prefectural structure of modern Japan.

* Yomiuri Shimbun: > 15 % of primary school students in Japan confused Takayoshi Kido with Mutsu or Toshimichi Ōkubo, 2008.

The city is also the location for various facilities of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and was the home port for the nuclear powered research vessel Mutsu, until its decommissioning in 1997.

Shirakawa was formerly known as the gateway to the old Mutsu Province of Japan.

On his return to Japan, he was stationed for six months on the battleship Mutsu, and promoted to commander on 1 December 1923.

* Obama Castle ( Mutsu ), a mountain castle in the former Mutsu Province in Japan

is a district located in past Mutsu Province and today's Miyagi, Japan.

* NS Mutsu, Japan, 1970 – 1992.

* Mutsu, Aomori, a city in Aomori prefecture, Japan

* Mutsu Province, one of the old provinces of Japan

* Mutsu ( toy ), a toy made by Tomy Japan.

was a district in Japan belonging to Mutsu Province or the Miyagi Prefecture.

It was the seat of the Tsugaru clan, a 47, 000 koku tozama daimyō clan who ruled over Hirosaki Domain, Mutsu Province, in what is now central Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

was the third ruler of Northern Fujiwara in Mutsu Province, Japan, the grandson of Fujiwara no Kiyohira.

was the fourth ruler of Northern Fujiwara in Mutsu Province, Japan, the second son of Hidehira.

* June 8 – WWII: Japanese battleship Mutsu was destroyed by an accidental magazine explosion in Hashirajima anchorage, killing 1, 121.

The area of Akita has been created from the ancient provinces of Dewa and Mutsu.

Aomori is located in central Aomori Prefecture, between the southern end of Mutsu Bay, which it faces to the north and the Hakkōda Mountains to the south.

Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Aomori prefecture was known as Mutsu Province.

The Shimokita and Tsugaru Peninsulas enclose Mutsu Bay.

The Ashikaga then decided to permanently stay in Kyoto, making Kamakura instead the capital of the ( or ), a region including the provinces of Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimōsa, Hitachi, Kozuke, Shimotsuke, Kai, and Izu, to which were later added Mutsu and Dewa, making it the equivalent to today's Kanto, plus the Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

Moreover, Mutsu had already noticed its importance in order to expand Japanese military power towards South China and Southeast Asia.

Ito and Mutsu claimed that yielding the full sovereignty of Taiwan was an absolute condition and requested Li to hand over full sovereignty of Penghu Islands and the eastern portion of the bay of Liaodong Peninsula.

Saitō was born in Mizusawa Domain, Mutsu Province ( part of present day Ōshū City Iwate Prefecture ), as the son of a samurai of the Mizusawa Clan.

Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu.

Mutsu Province, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi, and became the largest as it expanded northward.

In the third month of second year of the Wadō era ( 709 ), there was an uprising against governmental authority in Mutsu Province and in nearby Echigo Province.

In Wadō 5 ( 712 ), the land of Mutsu Province was administratively separated from Dewa Province.

In the Meiji period, four new provinces were created from parts of Mutsu: Rikuchū, Rikuzen, Iwaki, and Iwashiro.

Date Masamune built a castle at Sendai as his seat to rule Mutsu.

Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Iwate prefecture was part of Mutsu Province.

In 712 the province of Mutsu, containing all of Tohoku, was divided into Dewa Province, the area west of the Ou Mountains and Mutsu Province.