was a Japanese bureaucrat, politician, and kendo master, who served as Governor of Fukushima Prefecture (1910–1913), Director-General of the Hokkaido Agency (1914–1915), Superintendent-General of the Metropolitan Police (1915–1916), Mayor of Tokyo (1926–1927), and a member of the House of Peers (1916–1930).
Early life Hiromichi Nishikubo was born in 1863 in Nabeshima Village, Saga District, Hizen Province (now part of Saga, Saga Prefecture).
He was the eldest son of a lower-ranking samurai family from Nabeshima Village. He later studied law, attending the Ministry of Justice Law School and completing his higher legal studies in Tokyo before entering government service in the 1890s.
Honours Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th class (26 December 1910) Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd class (19 January 1916) Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class (1 April 1916) Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st class (8 July 1930)
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