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Explanation: Born 1857. From what is today Mizusawa City, Iwate Prefecture. 1880: President, Aichi Medical School. 1883: Appointed to the Hygiene Bureau, Home Ministry. 1892: Director, Hygiene Bureau, Home Ministry. 1895: Served in the Ad Hoc Army Quarantine Inspection Department. 1898: Appointed Director, Civil Affairs Bureau (later Civil Affairs Department), Governor-General for Taiwan, by Governor-General Kodama Gentarō. Served in position from March through June of that year, encouraging the study of old customs and on industrial development. Continued as Director when the Civil Affairs Bureau was reorganized as the Civil Affairs Department, and remained in that post through November 1906. Subsequently appointed first president of the South Manchuria Railway, but soon turned over the post to Nakamura Yoshikoto, who had been his assisstant since his time in Taiwan, and returned to Japan. Became Communications Minister in 1908 (concurrent with post of Director, Railway Bureau). Resigned in August 1911. In 1912, once again appointed Communications Minister (now concurrent with posts of Director, Railway Bureau, and Director, Bureau of Colonial Affairs), which he resigned in February 1913. In 1916, became Home Minister in the Terauchi Cabinet, concurrent with his post of Railway Bureau Director. In 1918, appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, and pushed for the dispatch of Japan's Siberian Expedition. Became mayor of Tokyo City in 1920. In 1923, reappointed Home Minister. Following the Great Kantō Earthquake of that year, took on concurrent appointment as Director, Imperial City Restoration Board, and worked on the plan to rebuild disaster-struck Tokyo. April 1929: Passed away.

Reference materials: 「後藤新平」（鳥海靖執筆）臼井勝美ほか編『日本近現代人名辞典』吉川弘文館、2001年、423-424頁。「後藤新平」（加藤聖文執筆）貴志俊彦・松重充浩・松村史紀編『二〇世紀満洲歴史事典』吉川弘文館、2012年、76-77頁。

Basic word (Japanese): 後藤新平

Basic word (English): Goto Shimpei

Synonym: 後藤民政長官後藤台湾総督府民政長官後藤長官後藤帝都復興院総裁後藤鉄道院総裁後藤総裁後藤拓殖局副総裁後藤外務大臣後藤伯後藤子後藤男内務大臣後藤男爵

Related words: 後藤大臣後藤内務大臣後藤逓信大臣内務省衛生局長臨時陸軍検疫部台湾総督府民政長官南満洲鉄道株式会社総裁鉄道院総裁逓信大臣拓殖局総裁シベリア出兵西比利亜出兵問題ニ関スル意見日露協会内務大臣東京市長帝都復興院総裁大日本連合青年団後藤一蔵

Superordinate category: Ministry of Home Affairs (Bureaucrat)

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