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*''Died: [[1900]]''

John Diack was an English engineer who played a significant role in the construction of Japan's first [[railroads]].

Diack preceded [[Josiah Conder]] as an architecture teacher in Tokyo, and later worked under [[Edmund Morel]], surveying the route from [[Shinbashi Station|Shinbashi]] to [[Sakuragicho Station|Yokohama]]. His contract ended in [[1876]]; after his death in [[1900]], Diack was buried at the [[Yokohama Foreign Cemetery]].

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==References==
*Plaques at Sakuragichô Station.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/16833415366/sizes/l]

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