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Koizumi Matajirō Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Personal details Born 10 June 1865 Died 24 September 1951 (aged 86) Koizumi Matajirō.Koizumi Matajirō (小泉 又次郎, 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, Junya Koizumi, became a director general of the Defense Agency and a second-generation Diet member.
Koizumi's grandson, Junichiro 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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Categories:- 1865 births
- 1951 deaths
- Members of the House of Peers (Japan)
- People from Yokohama
- Koizumi family
- Members of the House of Representatives of Japan 1890–1947
- Japanese politician stubs
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