The Hokkaido Development Agency's Transfer of Public Property Incident

Japanese: 開拓使官有物払下事件 - かいたくしかんゆうぶつはらいさげじけん

This was an incident that occurred in the early Meiji period, caused by collusion between clan factions and political businessmen. From 1872, the government invested 14 million yen in a 10-year plan for the development of Hokkaido. At the end of the term in 1881, Kuroda Kiyotaka, the Director of Hokkaido Development, who was a member of the Satsuma faction, attempted to sell off the Hokkaido Development Commission's government property to the Kansai Trading Company, led by Godai Tomoatsu, a native of the same town, on the exceptional condition of 387,000 yen, interest-free, and paid in 30-year installments. Okuma Shigenobu and the Freedom and People's Rights Movement launched an opposition attack, and Ito Hirobumi and other government leaders cancelled the plan. →The Political Crisis of 1881 →Related Article: Fukuchi Ochi

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Japanese:

明治初期，藩閥と政商との結託が引き起こした事件。政府は1872年以降10年計画で1400万円を北海道開拓のために投下した。1881年の満期に薩摩閥の開拓長官黒田清隆は開拓使の官有物を同郷出身の五代友厚らの関西貿易商会ほかに，38万7000余円無利息30年賦という破格の条件で払い下げようとした。大隈重信や自由民権派から反対攻撃が起こり，伊藤博文ら政府首脳はこの計画を取り消した。→明治14年の政変
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