<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itō_Hirobumi" id="mwkg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Itō Hirobumi">Itō Hirobumi</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai" id="mwkw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Samurai">samurai</a>, becomes the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan" id="mwlA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Japan">Prime Minister of Japan</a>.<sup about="#mwt94" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_22#cite_note-16" id="mwlQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwlg">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt91" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFKazuhiro2014">Kazuhiro, Takii (2014). <i id="mwB-4">Itō Hirobumi Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution</i>. Translated by Manabu, Takechi. London: Routledge. p.<span id="mwB-8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>52. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB_A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB_E" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-41583-886-3" id="mwB_I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-41583-886-3"><bdi id="mwB_M">978-0-41583-886-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt91" class="Z3988" id="mwB_Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=It%C5%8D+Hirobumi+Japan%27s+First+Prime+Minister+and+Father+of+the+Meiji+Constitution&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=52&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2014&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-41583-886-3&amp;rft.aulast=Kazuhiro&amp;rft.aufirst=Takii&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+22"></span></span>