GOVERNOR OF KOREA
ILL-HEALTH MAKES SAITO RESIGN POST DISTINGUISHED JAPANESE By Cable —Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. TOKYO, Sunday. It is reported that Viscount Minoru Saito is retiring from the GovernorGeneralship of Korea on the ground of ill-health. He will be succeeded by General Yamanashi. —A. and N.Z. „ Viscount Saito was at the head of the Japanese delegation which took part in the triangular conference at Geneva with England and America on naval limitation, rle is one of the most famous of modern Japanese sailors and administrators. He was born a commoner at Dwata Ken in being honoured with a barony in .£2l’ ant * finally raised to the peerage in 1925 as a viscount. After the upheaval among the Koreans in 1919 under the rule of Marshal Hasegawa, Saito was appointed GovernorGeneral of Korea. Since then he has made education one of his chief concerns. At that time there were only 250 schools on the peninsula *.nd the mass of the people were unlettered, uncultured and misinformed on most matters of world importance. By 1926 he had increased the number of schools five-fold, and to-day education plays a very material part in the lives of the people of Korea.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 213, 28 November 1927, Page 9
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