Yukio Tomeoka
Yukio Tomeoka | |
|---|---|
留岡 幸男 | |
 Tomeoka, before 1935 | |
| Director-General of the Hokkaidō Agency | |
| In office 25 January 1946 – 25 April 1946 | |
| Monarch | Hirohito |
| Preceded by | Yoshio Mochinaga |
| Succeeded by | Kaneshichi Masuda |
| Superintendent General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department | |
| In office 20 October 1941 – 15 June 1942 | |
| Preceded by | Iwao Yamazaki |
| Succeeded by | Yoshinaga Tokiji |
| Governor of Akita Prefecture | |
| In office 11 January 1939 – 24 July 1940 | |
| Monarch | Hirohito |
| Preceded by | Yoshio Sasaki |
| Succeeded by | Fumio Iwakami |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 April 1894 |
| Died | 3 May 1981 (aged 87) |
| Resting place | Tama Cemetery |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
Yukio Tomeoka (留岡 幸男, Tomeoka Yukio; 16 April 1894 – 3 May 1981) was a Japanese bureaucrat, police official, and later lawyer. A career official of the Home Ministry, he served as Governor of Akita Prefecture, Director-General of the ministry's Local Affairs Bureau, Superintendent-General of the Metropolitan Police, and finally as Director-General of the Hokkaidō Agency.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
Tomeoka was born on 16 April 1894.[2] Biographical sources differ on his place of origin: Kotobank and the Tokutomi Sohō Memorial Museum database describe him as being from Okayama Prefecture, while the Hokkaido Government archive gives Tokyo as his place of origin.[2][3][1] He was the third son of the social reformer Kōsuke Tomeoka and he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University before entering the Home Ministry.[2]
Career
Before reaching senior office, Tomeoka served in a series of police and local-administration posts. He worked as police department chief in Kagawa, Niigata, and Kanagawa prefectures, while an archival list of higher local officials for March 1937 places him as Director of General Affairs in the Hokkaido Government.[2][4]
In 1939 he became Governor of Akita Prefecture.[2] He left in July 1940.[5][6]
After leaving Akita he moved to the central Home Ministry. He became Director-General of the Local Affairs Bureau in 1940.[2] National Archives material further shows that, while serving as local affairs chief, he was appointed one of the councillors of the Cabinet's Tōhoku Bureau in January 1940.[7]
In October 1941, under the Tōjō cabinet, Tomeoka became Superintendent-General of the Metropolitan Police.[2] He was the official responsible for maintaining security in the capital around the time of Japan's entry into the Pacific War.[2] Material preserved in museum collections also survives from his tenure as police chief, including a certificate issued in his name as Superintendent-General.[8]
On 25 January 1946 Tomeoka was appointed Director-General of the Hokkaidō Agency.[1] His tenure as lasting until 25 April 1946.[1] A study of the first postwar gubernatorial elections notes that he was among the former high officials affected by the occupation purge and that the Yoshida government accepted the resignation of the former police chief Tomeoka from the Hokkaido post in 1946.[9]
Later life
After leaving official office, Tomeoka worked as a lawyer.[2] In 1956 he was appointed an adviser to the Local Autonomy Agency.[10] He died on 3 May 1981.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "留岡 幸男". 赤れんが庁舎 展示ガイド (in Japanese). Hokkaido Government. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "留岡幸男". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- 1 2 "留岡 幸男". 徳富蘇峰記念館 人物検索 (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ "地方高等官一覧表（昭和12年3月1日現在）". Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ "東北北海道市会議長会議開催通知ノ件（秋田県知事留岡幸男）". National Archives of Japan Digital Archive (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ "戦前都道府県知事総覧・地方制度沿革事典". 近代史研究メモ (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ "内務省地方局長留岡幸男外三名ノ内閣東北局参与ニ任命ノ件". Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ "消防手精勤証書". Tokyo Museum Collection (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ "第一回知事公選と内務省" (PDF). 明治大学学術成果リポジトリ (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ "留岡幸男自治庁参与に任命の件". National Archives of Japan Digital Archive (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 April 2026.