Yoshiyuki Kawashima
Yoshiyuki Kawashima | |
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General | |
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| Other work | Army Minister |
Yoshiyuki Kawashima (川島 義之, Kawashima Yoshiyuki, 25 May 1878 – 8 September 1945) was a general in the
Army Minister
in the 1930s.
Biography
Kawashima was a native of
Ehime prefecture. He graduated from the 10th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1898 (where one of his classmates was Sadao Araki, and graduated with honors from the 20th class of the Army Staff College in 1908. He was sent as a military attaché to Germany
from 1910-1913.
After serving in the strategy and planning department and as Chief of Personnel Bureau within the
IJA 3rd Division
.
After being appointed deputy commander of the
February 26th Incident of 1936.[3]
Kawashima died shortly after the end of World War II on 8 September 1945.
References
Books
- Harries, Meirion (1994). Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. Random House. ISBN 0-679-75303-6.
- Shillony, Ben Ami (2001). Revolt in Japan; The young officers and the February 26, 1936 incident. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-07548-4.
External links
- Wendel, Marcus. "Army Ministers of State". Axis History Factbook.
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