Naito Torajiro

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Naitō Torajirō (内籐 虎次郎 Naitō Torajirō; 1866-1934), commonly known as Naitō Konan (内藤 湖南 Naitō Konan), was a Japanese historian.

He was born in what is today Akita Prefecture. He distinguished himself as a journalist. In 1907 he found Manwen Laodang in Mukden. As an authority of Chinese history, he was invited to Kyoto Imperial University by Kano Kokichi in 1907 and got involved in the foundation of the Department of Oriental History.