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Daijo-kan system. Having just returned from the Iwakura Mission in 1873, Okubo Toshimichi pushed forward a plan for the creation of an "Interior ministry" within the Daijo-kan modeled after similar ministries in European nations, headed by himself. The Home Ministry was established as government department in November 1873, initially as an internal security agency to deal with possible

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