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Who is Sakamoto Ryoma?(OTHER NATIONS)

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| June 22, 2007 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

FURTHER CONFIRMATION, IF any were needed, that we all have a firm sense of our own place in the world is the release of "History's I00 Most Influential People, Hero Edition," a survey conducted by the Nippon Television Network, Japan's largest broadcast system. Thirteen of the top 20 slots on the list, and about half overall, are occupied by Japanese people, an impressive--if somewhat ethnocentric--sprinkling of samurai, daimyo, and shoguns.

In the place of honor, at number one, is Sakamoto Ryoma, a revered samurai who helped negotiate the resignation of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1867, which led to the Meiji Restoration. Ryoma's plum position sets a pattern; many of…

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