Prince Saionji: Japan: Makers of the Modern World

The Japanese delegation was led by Prince Saionji, the dashing “kingmaker” of early twentieth-century Japanese politics whose life spanned the arrival of Commodore Perry and his “black ships,” the Japanese civil war, the Meiji Restoration, the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the First World War, and the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles.