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Kondo Eijiro /近藤英次郎; September 12 , 1887 – December 27, 1955 ) was a Japanese naval officer. He held the rank of Vice Admiral and was a member of the House of Representatives . Circa 1930. Kondo Eijiro was born in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture. He graduated from the Naval Academy in...

Baron Kataoka Shichirō (片岡 七郎, 12 January 1854 – 11 January 1920) was born to a samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima prefecture), Kataoka entered the 3rd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1871, and served as a midshipman on the corvette Tsukuba. Kataoka...