Matajirō Koizumi
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| Koizumi Matajirō | |
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| Minister of Posts and Telecommunications | |
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| Born | 10 June 1865 |
| Died | 24 September 1951 (aged 86) |
Matajirō Koizumi (小泉 又次郎 Koizumi Matajirō, June 10, 1865 - September 24, 1951) was the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in Japan. He was a scaffolder's son from Yokohama, known as "wild man" and "irezumi minister" because he had a large tattoo of a red dragon on his back. He sought to privatise the Post Office.
Koizumi led a movement to establish universal suffrage during the Taishō period. Koizumi's son-in-law, Jun'ya Koizumi, became a director general of the Defense Agency and a second-generation Diet member.
Koizumi's grandson, Jun'ichirō Koizumi, served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006 and inherited his grandfather's idea of postal privatization; Junichiro had himself been Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in 1992-93 under Kiichi Miyazawa.
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