Chikahiko Koizumi

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Chikahiko Koizumi (小泉親彦, Koizumi Chikahiko, September 9, 1884 – September 13, 1945) was a Japanese military physician.

After graduating Tokyo Imperial University, he joined the Japanese Medical Corps.

He became Army Surgeon General of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1934.

He was the Minister of Health and Welfare from 1941 to 1944 under the Konoe and Tōjō cabinet.

After the war, he came under suspicion of war crimes as a minister when the war broke. But Koizumi refused the investigation and committed suicide by seppuku.

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Name	Koizumi, Chikahiko
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Short description	Japanese physician
Date of birth	1884
Place of birth
Date of death	1945
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