Nomura Yasushi
Viscount Nomura Yasushi was a bureaucrat, statesman and cabinet minister, active in Meiji period Empire of Japan.
Nomura was born as the second son of a lowranked ashigaru samurai in Hagi, Chsh Domain, . As a youth, he studied at Yoshida Shins Shokansonjuku academy, where he joined the Sonn ji movement against the Tokugawa shogunate and the increasing foreign presence in Japan. He participated in the unsuccessful assassination attempt against the rj Manabe Akikatsu and in the burning of the British legation in Edo in 1862. He fought as a member of the Chsh armies against the Tokugawa during the Second Chsh expedition.
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