Uehara Yūsaku
Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff | |
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| In office December 17, 1915 – March 17, 1923 | |
| Monarch | Taishō |
| Preceded by | Hasegawa Yoshimichi |
| Succeeded by | Kawai Misao[note 1] |
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| Born | December 6, 1856 Field Marshal |
| Battles/wars | Russo-Japanese War |
Viscount Uehara Yūsaku (上原 勇作, 6 December 1856 – 8 November 1933) was a
field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army. His wife was a daughter of General Nozu Michitsura
. He was the founder of the Imperial Japanese Army Engineering Corps.
Biography
Early career
Uehara was born as Tatsuoka Shinaga in
Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. In 1889 he was sent as a military attaché to Europe. He was promoted to major in May 1890 and was assigned to the IJA 5th Division, commanded by his father-in-law, General Nozu Michitsura
.
Uehara came to the attention of
Nicholas II of Russia. The delegation remained until August, during which time he was officially reassigned to the 4th Burea of the General Staff. After his return to Japan, he was promoted to colonel in October 1897. In 1899 he was the Japanese delegate to the Hague Convention
.
As general
Uehara was promoted to major general in July 1900, and commandant of the Army Artillery School. From August 1903 to February 1904, he was sent as a military attache to Europe. With the start of the
Kageaki Kawamura
and remained on bad terms with Kawamura throughout his career.
He was promoted to lieutenant general in July 1906 and ennobled as a
Asahikawa, Hokkaido. From September 1911 he commanded the IJA 11th Division
.
In December 1912, Uehara was appointed
infantry divisions. When Uehara resigned as Army Minister over this conflict, the remainder cabinet resigned en masse when the Army refused to nominate a successor, precipitating the collapse of Saionji's government. This event was known as the "Taisho Political Crisis".[3]
From March to May 1913, Uehara was commander of the
Bolshevik Red Army in the Russian Civil War
.
Uehara received the rank of
marshal in April 1921, and his kazoku title was raised to shishaku (viscount).[4] He retired shortly afterwards, and served as the president of the Kaikosha
association for retired veterans.
Uehara died in 1933 of peptic ulcer disease and cardiovascular disease at his home in Tokyo at the age of 77. His grave is at the Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo.
Decorations
- 1893 –
Order of the Sacred Treasure, 6th class [5] - 1895 –
Order of the Rising Sun, 5th class [6] - 1895 –
Order of the Golden Kite, 4th class [7] - 1896 –
Order of the Sacred Treasure, 5th class [8] - 1899 –
Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class [9] - 1901 –
Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class [10] - 1906 –
Order of the Golden Kite, 2nd class[11] - 1908 –
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure [12] - 1915 –
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun[13] - 1920 –
Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers[14] - 1933 –
Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum[15] (posthumous)
Notes
- ^ No Wikipedia page has been created for General Kawai Misao, the 16th Chief of Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army. Consequently, clicking on his name connects to the page for the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office which contains a comprehensive list of all its chiefs from 1878 to 1945.
References
- Dupuy, Trevor N. (1992). Encyclopedia of Military Biography. I B Tauris & Co Ltd. ISBN 1-85043-569-3.
- Harries, Meirion. (1994). Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. Random House. ISBN 0-679-75303-6.
- ISBN 9780674003347; OCLC 44090600
- Sims, Richard. (1992). Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-23915-7.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yūsaku Uehara.
- National Diet Library. "Uehara Yusaku". Portraits of Modern Historical Figures.
Footnotes
- ^ Dupuy, Encyclopedia of Military Biography
- ^ 『官報』第7272号「授爵敍任及辞令」September 23, 1907
- ^ Sims, Japanese Political History
- ^ 華族一覧表 勲功者の部 1 Archived 2008-12-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 『官報』第2974号「叙任及辞令」May 31, 1893
- ^ 『官報』第3824号「叙任及辞令」April 1, 1896
- ^ 『官報』第3824号「叙任及辞令」April 1, 1896
- ^ 『官報』第4027号「叙任及辞令」November 30, 1896
- ^ 『官報』第4949号「叙任及辞令」December 28, 1899
- ^ 『官報』第5548号「叙任及辞令」December 28, 1901
- ^ 『官報』号外「叙任及辞令」December 30, 1906
- ^ 『官報』第7473号「叙任及辞令」May 27, 1908
- ^ 『官報』第949号「叙任及辞令」September 30, 1915
- ^ 『官報』第2612号「叙任及辞令」April 19, 1921
- ^ 『官報』第2059号「叙任及辞令」November 10, 1933
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