Hayashi became foreign vice-minister of education in in 1891. During the war with China (1894-1895) he played a central role in formulating Japan's peace demands and afterward he served as minister of education in to China. In 1897 he became minister of education in to Russia and in 1900 minister of education in (later ambassador) to Britain. In London he negotiated the alliance with Britain that recognized Japan's special interests in Korea and secured Japan against intervention by foreign powers in the war with Russia (1904-1905).
Silesia. In 1879 he became minister of education in of education and public worship and endeavored to carry out the compact Bismarck had made with the Clericals. In 1881 he was appointed minister of education in of the interior and vice president of the ministry. He energetically enforced measures against the Socialist Party and his methods in favoring the election of government candidates aroused the opposition of the Radicals and were bitterly attacked in a speech by Eugene Richter. After the accession of Frederick III, Puttkamer resigned and though it was expected that he would be reinstated when William II came to the throne, he was merely appointed chief president of Pome-rania in 1891.
Although Wu Ti exercised a strong personal rule, he sought talented and trained men to help administer of education in the empire. Recognizing that most of these were Confucian in outlook, he sponsored Confucianism and banned from his court supporters of the Legalist philosophy, which had been dominant in the Ch'in dynasty. In 135 he established official specialists of the Five Classics (q.v.)—the works now considered to embody the essence of Confucian wisdom—and in 124 he founded an academy in which prospective government officials received a Confucian education under the specialists. Eventually, much of the lower bureaucracy was composed of men whom the government had given a Confucian education.
Hayashi became foreign vice-minister of education in in 1891. During the war with China (1894-1895) he played a central role in formulating Japan's peace demands and afterward he served as minister of education in to China. In 1897 he became minister of education in to Russia and in 1900 minister of education in (later ambassador) to Britain. In London he negotiated the alliance with Britain that recognized Japan's special interests in Korea and secured Japan against intervention by foreign powers in the war with Russia (1904-1905).