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    The Hokkaidō Development Commission (開拓使, Kaitakushi), sometimes referred to as Hokkaidō Colonization Office or simply the Kaitakushi, was a government...
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    Meiji government originally classified Hokkaidō as a "Settlement Envoyship" (開拓使, kaitakushi), and later divided the island into three prefectures (Sapporo...
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    Hakodate Prefectural Government. When establishing the Development Commission (開拓使, Kaitakushi), the Meiji government introduced a new name. After 1869, the...
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  • After defeating the Tokugawa, the Meiji government created the Kaitakushi (開拓使) (Colonization Office) for Hokkaidō. The Kaitakushi recruited many foreign...
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    building, named as the Hokkaidō Development Commission Sapporo Main Office (開拓使札幌本庁舎, Kaitakushi Sapporo Honchōsha), was built in 1873, and was then one...
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    through trade with the Japanese. When establishing the Development Commission (開拓使 Kaitakushi), the Meiji Government introduced a new name. After exploration...
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    Kitami no kuni 北見国 1,511 Teshio no kuni 天塩国 1,576 Karafuto Kaitaku-shi 樺太開拓使 2,358 Total 26,065,422 25,917,830 26,061,700 25,086,466 24,891,441 25,471...
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    Kiyotaka Kuroda, a vice-chairman of the Hokkaidō Development Commission (開拓使, Kaitakushi) visiting the United States, to be a special advisor to the commission...
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    Nemuro-ken 根室県 5,642 Sapporo-ken 札幌県 61,144 Hakodate-ken 函館県 117,063 Kaitaku-shi 開拓使 177,901 168,084 163,355 158,615 151,735 150,667 149,554 149,008 146,443 123...
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  • the new government established the Hokkaidō Colonization Commission (北海道開拓使) to administer its northern territories. The Colonization Commission and...
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    citizen of Sapporo, delivered the first coal to the colonization commission (開拓使, Kaitakushi). The local government took action, and the mining engineers...
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    European Architecture in the Era of the Hokkaidō Development Commission 開拓使時代の洋風建築 Kaitakushi jidai no yōfū kenchiku Sapporo Includes the Sapporo Clock...
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    year, on 30 August 1881, Emperor Meiji rode the line, called Kaitakushi-gō (開拓使号, "Settlement Envoy"). Pulling nine cars in poor weather, the train arrived...
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  • Development Commission Headquarters Site・Former Hokkaidō Government Office 開拓使札幌本庁本庁舎跡および旧北海道庁本庁舎 Kaitakushi Sapporo honchō honchōsha ato oyobi kyū-Hokkaidō-chō...
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  • Government Board of Education. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2019. 開拓の村 マップ [Map] (in Japanese). Historical Village of Hokkaido. Retrieved 9 October...
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    "Hokkaidō". Following the establishment of the Hokkaidō Development Commission (開拓使) in Meiji 2 (1869), settler-farmers began to arrive. After major floods in...
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  • (in Japanese). reminder.top. Retrieved 23 September 2023. "常識破りの"ママドル"ポジション開拓!松田聖子の巧みな自己プロデュース力" (in Japanese). excite.co.jp. 6 December 2021. Retrieved...
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    (拓殖) at the time, but later by the euphemism, "opening up undeveloped land" (開拓 [jp]). Additionally, factories like flour mills and beer breweries, along...
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    Japanese). January 5, 2021. Retrieved November 21, 2022. 第30回東京国際映画祭 「映画の未来の開拓」大使として 橋本環奈さん、「東京国際映画祭アンバサダー」に就任!! [30th Tokyo International Film Festival...
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    recent times as a result of King Gojong's Ulleungdo Reclamation Program (鬱陵島開拓令) issued in Dec 1881. A first-person account by one of the first settlers...
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    2013. Archived from the original on 16 July 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020. "開拓優質國際化教育" (PDF). Ming Pao. 26 June 2016. Archived from the original on 16 July...
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