Hasegawa Yoshimichi
Count Hasegawa Yoshimichi | |
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 Japanese General Count Hasegawa Yoshimichi | |
| Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office | |
| In office 20 January 1912 – 17 December 1915 | |
| Monarchs | |
| Preceded by | Chōsen |
| In office October, 1916 – 1919 | |
| Preceded by | Terauchi Masatake |
| Succeeded by | Saitō Makoto |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 October 1850 Iwakuni Domain, Suō Province, Japan |
| Died | 27 January 1924 (aged 73) Tokyo, Japan |
| Awards |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Field Marshal  |
| Battles/wars | |
Count Hasegawa Yoshimichi (長谷川 好道, 1 October 1850 – 27 January 1924) was a
Biography
Hasegawa was born as the son of a samurai fencing master in the Iwakuni sub-fief of Chōshū (present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture), Hasegawa served under the Chōshū forces during the Boshin War from January until March 1868 during the Meiji Restoration which overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate.
Upon the formation of the
He traveled to France as military attaché in 1885 to study European military strategy, military tactics and equipment. Upon his return to Japan the following year, Hasegawa was promoted to major general.
During the 1904–1905 First Sino-Japanese War, Hasegawa won distinction for valor on behalf of his 12th Infantry Brigade at the Battle of Pyongyang on 15 September 1894 and in skirmishes around Haicheng from December 1894 until January 1895. After the war, he was ennobled with the title of danshaku (baron) under the kazoku peerage system.
During the
He was commander of the
's tight fiscal policy and attempted revision of the system whereby only active duty officers would be able to serve as Ministers of War and Navy. The collapse of Saionji’s government was known as the "Taishō Political Crisis".In 1915, Hasegawa was awarded the title of
Hasegawa died in 1924. His grave is at
.Notes
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hasegawa Yoshimishi" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 293, p. 293, at Google Books.
References
- Craig, Albert M. Chōshū in the Meiji Restoration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. OCLC 482814571
- Dupuy, Trevor N. The ISBN 0-7858-0437-4
- ISBN 9780691054599; OCLC 12311985
- ____________. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: ISBN 9780674003347; OCLC 44090600
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge:
External links
- National Diet Library. "Hasegawa Yoshimichi". Portraits of Modern Historical Figures.