Japan: Count Kuroda Kiyotaka (16 October 1840 - 23 August 1900), Prime Minister of Japan from (1888-1889). Count Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Japanese politician of the Meiji era, and the second Prime Minister of Japan. Born into a samurai family, he had been part of the Anglo-Satsuma War in 1863. Under the new Meiji government, he became a pioneer-diplomat, and was put in charge of colonisation efforts in Hokkaido in 1872, to counter Russia's push eastwards. He helped negotiate the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1876, and aided in the suppression of the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877.

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