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Baron Asada Nobuoki /浅田 信興, November 6, 1851 – April 27, 1927/ was Asada was born as the third son of Sakaguchi Akitada, a samurai retainer of the Kawagoe Domain in Musashi Province, and was adopted by Asada Junshin, a senior retainer of the same clan as his heir. He studied artillery under...

Masatake Nakajima /中島正武; October 4 , 1870 (September 10, 1870) - February 23, 1931/ was born in Odakasaka Village, Tosa County, Kochi Prefecture (present-day Kochi City ) as the son of Masaatsu Nakajima. After attending Kainan Middle School and the Army Cadet School, he graduated from the Army...

Kiyoshi Furuya /古谷清; October 2 , 1878 - November 2 , 1945/ was born in Tokyo Prefecture, he was the eldest son of Hamayoshi Furuya. After graduating from Tokyo Prefectural Fourth Middle School (now Tokyo Metropolitan Toyama High School), he graduated from the Army Academy (10th class) in...

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...

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...

Jirō Minami /南 次郎, Minami Jirō, 10 August 1874 – 5 December 1955/ was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Governor-General of Korea between 1936 and 1942. After the end of WW2 he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment. Born to an ex-samurai family in Hiji, Ōita...