Hirata Tosuke
Count Hirata Tosuke was a statesman and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, active in the Meiji and Taish period Empire of Japan.
Hirata was born in the Yonezawa Domain, Dewa Province as the son of a local samurai. He was sent by the domain to Edo for studies, and subsequently fought in the Boshin War on the side of the uetsu Reppan Dmei. After the Meiji Restoration, was ordered by the domain to go to Tokyo and study at the Daigaku Nank . After graduating, he was a student member of the Iwakura Mission of 1871 along with Makino Nobuaki. He later stayed in Germany to study at Heidelberg University and Leipzig University . He is the first Japanese with a doctorate degree.
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