Governor-General of Korea
However, in 1936, Minami was appointed 8th Governor-General of Korea between 1936 and 1942. His tenure in Korea was marked by a more hard-line approach than his predecessors, with a rolling back of various liberal reforms of the 1920s. In addition, Minami outlawed all but one of the Korean language newspapers, and strongly pushed for the "soshi-kamei" policy.