text: Japan 's austere , ruthless , but statesmanlike new ruler , Yoritomo Minamoto , set up his government in Kamakura ( just south of modern Tokyo ) , well away from the softening influence of court life that had been the undoing of his predecessor , Kiyomori .
  
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  Kamakura was the site of Yoritomo Minamoto 's new government .