Count Hayashi Tadasu

Count Hayashi Tadasu (born Feb. 22, 1850, Chiba prefecture, Japan—died July 10, 1913, Tokyo) was a Japanese diplomat who negotiated the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902. Hayashi studied in England, but upon his return home in 1868, at the time of the Meiji Restoration, he joined a short-lived rebellion of diehard Tokugawa loyalists against the new imperial government. He was imprisoned until 1871 and was then assigned as interpreter to Iwakura Tomomi’s diplomatic mission to the...