Governance must be clean and transparent.
為政清明。
Military Strategists
Ōkubo Toshimichi
The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory (1830-1878). Okubo Toshimichi proved that revolutions are won by warriors but consolidated by administrators — and that the builder of systems is more consequential than the hero of battles.
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