Minister of Education Sukenori KABAYAMA of the second Yamagata cabinet that was organized in 1898 at the stage of establishment of Kyoto Imperial University told that he wished to establish imperial universities in the Tohoku and Kyushu regions.
京都帝国大学創立期の1898年に成立した第2次山縣内閣の樺山資紀文相が、東北地方と九州地方にも帝国大学を設置したいと言明した。