Kuroki Tamemoto
Count Kuroki Tamemoto | |
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IJA 1st Army | |
Battles/wars | Boshin War First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War |
Early life
Born as the son of a
Imperial Japanese Army
In July 1871, Kuroki was commissioned a
During the
Russo-Japanese War
Promoted to the rank of
During the
During the war, Kuroki was obliged to devote attention to a large coterie of Western observers.[2] Press coverage of the war was affected by restrictions on the movement of reporters and strict censorship. In all military conflicts which followed, close attention to more managed reporting was considered essential.[3]
The
Later years
Despite his success and previous military record, Kuroki was one of two senior field commanders denied promotion to
Retiring from military service in 1909, he received the title of danshaku (baron) and later hakushaku (count) under the kazoku peerage system. From 1917 onwards he served as a Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (内大臣, Naidaijin) until his death from pneumonia in 1923.
Honours
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (30 May 1905)
- Hon. Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG) (20 February 1906)[7]
- Baron (1 April 1906)
- Order of the Golden Kite, 1st Class (1 April 1906)
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers (1 April 1906)
- Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword (1906)[8]
- Order of the Plum Blossom (28 December 1906)
- Count (1909)
Two towns in North America were named in his honor: Kuroki, Saskatchewan[9] and Kuroki, North Dakota.[10]
Notes
- ^ Connaughton, Richard Michael. (1988). The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear: A Military History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5, p. 231.
- ^ Roth, Mitchel P., and James Stuart Olson. (1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism, p. 267.
- ^ Walker, Dale L. "Jack London's War." Archived 2012-10-17 at the Wayback Machine World of Jack London website.
- ^ Knightly, Philip. "Beating the censor – Ashmead-Bartlett's efforts to reveal the real story of Gallipoli," Archived 2011-03-12 at the Wayback Machine Visit Gallipoli (Information Services Branch of the Board of Studies NSW for the Department of Veterans' Affairs); Knightly, Phillip (2004). The First Casualty, p. 107; Roth, p. 196.
- ^ Roth, p. 230.
- ^ Humphreys, Leonard A. (1995). The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920s, p. 3.
- ^ The London Gazette, 15 May 1906
- ^ Sveriges statskalender (PDF) (in Swedish), 1912, p. 519, retrieved 19 March 2021 – via gupea.ub.gu.se
- ^ Barry, B. (October 2003) People Places: Contemporary Saskatchewan Place Names, 1-894022-92-0
- ^ "Kuroki (Bottineau County)". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-23.
References
- ISBN 978-0-304-36657-6(paper)
- Davis, Richard Harding et al. (1905). The Russo-Japanese war; a photographic and descriptive review of the great conflict in the Far East, gathered from the reports, records, cable despatches, photographs, etc., etc., of Collier's war correspondents New York: P. F. Collier & Son. OCLC: 21581015
- Dupuy, Trevor N. et al. (1992). Encyclopedia of Military Biography. London: I. B. Tauris & Co.
- Harries, Meirion et al. (1992). Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. New York: ISBN 978-0-394-56935-2
- Humphreys, Leonard A. (1995). The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920s. Stanford: ISBN 978-0-8047-2375-6
- Kepplinger, Hans Mathias, Hans-Bernd Brosius and Joachim Friedrich Staab. "Instrumental Actualization: A Theory of Mediated Conflicts," European Journal of Communication, Vol. 6, No. 3, 263-290 (1991)
- Roth, Mitchel P. and James Stuart Olson. (1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism. Westport, Connecticut: ISBN 978-0-313-29171-5
- Sisemore, James D. (2003). Sisemore, James D. (2003). "The Russo-Japanese War, Lessons Not Learned." Archived 2009-03-04 at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
- Towle, Philip. (1998). "Aspects of the Russo-Japanese War: British Observers of the Russo-Japanese War,"Paper No. IS/1998/351. STICERD, LSE.