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Viscount Ōshima Hisanao /大島久直, 1 October 1848 – 27 September 1928/ was the younger son of a teacher of sōjutsu ("art of the spear") of Akita Domain (present day Akita Prefecture). From 1868 to 1869 he fought during the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration on the imperial side, and was...

Lieutenant-General Noboru Kunisaki /国崎 登, August 20, 1886 - November 27, 1960) was born in Hiroshima Prefecture as the eldest son of Junzaburo Kunizaki. Graduated from the Army Academy in May 1907. In December of the same year, he was commissioned as an infantry second lieutenant and assigned...

Senda Sadasue /千田貞季, 16 December 1892 – 8 March 1945/ was a native of Kagoshima Prefecture, and was born to the Takayama family, and was later adopted by the Senda family, whose surname he took. A graduate of the 26th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1914, one of his classmates was...

Lieutenant-General Takateru Inagaki /稲垣孝照; September 20, 1888; October 22, 1944/ was born in September 1878 in Ehime Prefecture as the eldest son of Takanori Inagaki. In 1901, he graduated from the Army War College (12th class) and was appointed as a second lieutenant in the infantry. He served...

Lieutenant-General Takamori, Takashi/鷹森 孝; January 9, 1888; April 27, 1968/ was the fourth son of Tsu Mayor Sataro Kurokawa and the adopted son of Army Major Takeo Takamori. He studied at Nagoya Army Regional Infant School and Central Infant School. In May 1908, he graduated from the 20th batch...

Tajima, Eijirō /田島栄次郎 ; 20.05.1883 - 11.05.1952/. Ranks: 26.06.1906 Second Lieutenant 21.12.1908 Lieutenant 29.02.1916 Captain 08.02.1922 Major 07.08.1925 Lieutenant Colonel 01.08.1930 Colonel 15.03.1935 Major General 01.03.1938 Lieutenant General Military Career...

Suetaka Kamezō (尾高亀蔵 ;September 28 , 1884 - August 1, 1953) was born in Saga Prefecture as the second son of farmer Heiji Otani and was adopted by the Suetaka family. He attended Karatsu Junior High School and graduated from the Military Academy (16th class) in October 1904. In November of the...

Saburō Endō /January 2, 1893; October 11, 1984/. Promotions 1937-08-02 Colonel 1939-08-01 Major-General 1942-12-01 Lieutenant-General Service 1932-08-08 – 1934-08-01 Chief of Manoeuvres Section, Kwantung Army 1934-08-01 – 1936-08-01 Instructor at the War College...

Rare cavalier of 3rd class Serbian order of the White Eagle with swords and Chinese order of Striped Tiger. Heisuke Yanagawa /柳川 平助, October 2, 1879 – January 22, 1945/ was born in what is now part of Nagasaki city, Nagasaki prefecture, Yanagawa was raised in Ōita Prefecture by his adoptive...

Major General Funabashi Yoshizo awards: 2nd class Rising Sun order https://asiamedals.info/threads/2nd-class-rising-sun-order-awarded-in-1920-to-major-general-funabashi-yoshizo.27520/ ; 3rd class Sacred Treasure order...

Aketo Nakamura (中村 明人, Nakamura Aketo, 11 April 1889 – 12 September 1966). Promotions 1933-08-01 Colonel 1937-08-02 Major-General 1939-10-02 Lieutenant-General Service 1929-08-XX – 1930-08-01 Attached to 3rd Imperial Guards Regiment 1930-08-01 – 1932-06-09 Senior...

Hisakazu Tanaka /田中 久一, Tanaka Hisakazu, 16 March 1889 – 27 March 1947/ was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and governor of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in World War II. Promotions 1934-03-05 Colonel 1937-12-28 Major-General 1940-08-01 Lieutenant-general Service...

Lieutenant-General Kanji Tsuneoka (Japanese 常岡寛治; November 7, 1886; August 15, 1948) Promotions 1930-08-01 Colonel 1935-03-25 Major-General 1938-03-01 Lieutenant-General Service 1929-12-10 – 1931-01-28 Military Attaché to Thailand 1931-04-12 – 1931-08-01 Attached...

Unidentified colonel of 4th Guards Regiment with 3rd class Order of the Crown and Order of Auspicious Clouds.

Gaishi Nagaoka (長岡 外史, May 13, 1858 - April 21 , 1933) Japanese air force commander and pioneer of aviation, whose mustache measured 20 inches from tip to tip, was born Suō Province in 1858. His father, San'emon Hori (堀 三右衛門, Hori Sanemon), was an adopted son of Nanyo Nagaoka (長岡 南陽, Nagaoka...

Lieutenant-General Hisao Tani (December 23 , 1882 - April 26 , 1947) was born in Okayama, Japan in 1882. He graduated from the Japanese Army Academy in 1903, entering the artillery. At the rank of Sub-lieutenant, he saw action during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War with the 1st Guards Regiment...

Korechika Anami /阿南 惟幾, Anami Korechika, 21 February 1887 – 15 August 1945/ was born in Taketa city in Ōita Prefecture, where his father was a senior bureaucrat in the Home Ministry and grew up in Tokyo and in Tokushima Prefecture. He attended the 18th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy...

Hata, Hikosaburō /秦彦三郎/ (October 1, 1890 - March 20 , 1959). Promotions 1936-03-07 Colonel 1939-03-09 Major-General 1941-10-15 Lieutenant-General Service 1932-12-XX – 1933-03-XX Attached to the General Staff 1933-03-XX – 1934-03-05 Chief of Soviet Branch, 4th...

Unidentified cavalier of Striped Tigers order (he is also wearing inside his medal bar British DSC and French Croix de Guerre).