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Ken Terajima
was a Japanese Vice Admiral and politician. He was also known for serving as the Minister of Communications from 18 October 1941 to 8 October 1943, and Minister of Railways from 18 October 1941 to 2 December 1941, in the Tōjō Cabinet. Family During the Sengoku period, his family served Takeda Nobutora, and since the middle of the Edo period, he was in the Ando family, the chief retainer of the Kishu Tokugawa clan. His father, Yoshinari Terajima, worked for the Wakayama prefectural government, and Ken was the fourth son. His wife is Etsuko, the fourth daughter of Omoto Tomomichi. Early naval career Terajima attended Wakayama Junior High School as he took a personal admiration of the student uniforms of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, notably the ones of Yonejiro Okamoto and Kichisaburō Nomura, who were enrolled in the Naval Academy as junior high school seniors. There were 1,374 applicants and 200 passed the exam, Terajima, who had taken the exam after completing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirohito
Emperor , commonly known in English-speaking countries by his personal name , was the 124th emperor of Japan, ruling from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kōjun, had two sons and five daughters; he was succeeded by his fifth child and eldest son, Akihito. By 1979, Hirohito was the only monarch in the world with the title "emperor". He was the longest-reigning historical Japanese emperor and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world. Hirohito was the head of state under the Meiji Constitution during Japan's imperial expansion, militarization, and involvement in World War II. Japan waged a war across Asia in the 1930s and 40s in the name of Hirohito, who was revered as a god. After Japan's surrender, he was not prosecuted for war crimes, as General Douglas MacArthur thought that an ostensibly cooperative emperor would help establish a peaceful Allied occupation, and help the U.S. achieve their postwar objectives. His role dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tōjō Cabinet
The Tōjō Cabinet is the 40th Cabinet of Japan led by Hideki Tojo Hideki Tojo (, ', December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a Japanese politician, general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assi ... from 18 October 1941 to 22 July 1944. Cabinet Reorganized Cabinet The Cabinet was reorganized on November 1, 1943. References {{Cabinets of Japan Cabinet of Japan 1941 establishments in Japan Cabinets established in 1941 Cabinets disestablished in 1944 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saneyuki Akiyama
was a Meiji-period career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was famous as a planner of Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese general Akiyama Yoshifuru was his elder brotherDupuy, Encyclopedia of Military Biography and the Japanese politician Hisako Ōishi was his granddaughter. Biography Early life and career Akiyama was born in Matsuyama Domain, Iyo Province, as a son of a poor ''samurai''. As a youth, he studied literature, especially traditional ''waka'' poetry. The famous poet Masaoka Shiki was his friend from childhood. Later the two young men went to Tokyo to study literature and Akiyama began to prepare for entry into the Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University. However, Akiyama was forced to abandon his study of letters as his elder brother Yoshifuru ordered him to go to Naval Academy in Tsukiji, Tokyo instead, largely due to the economically severe condition of the Akiyama family. While Akiyama was a student, the Naval Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Battleship Mikasa
is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima. Days after the end of the war, ''Mikasa''s magazine accidentally exploded and sank the ship. She was salvaged and her repairs took over two years to complete. Afterwards, the ship served as a coast-defence ship during World War I and supported Japanese forces during the Siberian Intervention in the Russian Civil War. After 1922, ''Mikasa'' was decommissioned in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty and preserved as a museum ship at Yokosuka. She was badly neglected during the post-World War II Occupation of Japan and required extensive refurbishing in the late 1950s. She has been partially restored, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)
The was the main battleship fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. History First established on 28 December 1903, the IJN 1st Fleet was created during the Russo-Japanese War when the Imperial General Headquarters divided the Readiness Fleet into a mobile strike force of cruisers and destroyers to pursue the Imperial Russian Navy's Vladivostok-based cruiser squadron (the Imperial Japanese Navys 2nd Fleet), while the remaining bulk of the Japanese fleet (the IJN 1st Fleet) continued to blockade Port Arthur in hopes of luring the battleships of the Russian Pacific Fleet out into a classic line-of-battle confrontation. The two fleets were combined into the Combined Fleet for the final Battle of Tsushima. The decisive victory of the Japanese fleet over the Imperial Russian Navy at the Battle of Tsushima validated the doctrine of the "decisive victory", or '' kantai kessen'' as stipulated by naval theorists such as Alfred Thayer Mahan and Satō Tetsutarō in the eyes of the Imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Training Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)
The was a training unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Organized after the Russo-Japanese War, however, systematized in 1902 by the in the Standing Fleet. This article handles Training Fleet and Training Detachment. Organizations of the Training Detachment Organizations of the Training Fleet Bibliography *Monthly Ships of the World, (Japan) **No. 441, Special issue Vol. 32, ''"Japanese cruisers"'', September 1991 **No. 500, Special issue Vol. 44, ''"Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy"'', August 1995 **No. 754, Special issue Vol. 101, ''"History of Japanese cruisers"'', January 2012 *The Maru Special, (Japan) **Japanese Naval Vessels No. 44, ''"Cruiser Tone-class and Katori-class"'', October 1980 **Japanese Naval Vessels No. 53, ''"Japanese support vessels"'', July 1981 *Rekishi Dokuhon, Special issue No. 33 ''Overview of admirals of the Imperial Japanese Navy'', Shin-Jinbutsuōraisha, October 1999 *The Japanese Modern Historical Manuscripts Association, ''Organizations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyoshi Hasegawa (admiral)
''Incorporates information and translations from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia'' Admiral was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the 18th Governor-General of Taiwan during most of the Pacific War, serving from December 1940 to December 1944. Early life and naval career The second son of a doctor, Hasegawa was born in the village of Yashiro in the district of Asuwa, Fukui Prefecture, now incorporated into the city of Fukui. Having aspirations to join the Navy from an early age, in 1900 he graduated from high school and enrolled at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy on 17 December. He graduated as a midshipman on 14 December 1903, ranking sixth in his class of 173, and joined the crew of the cruiser . He transferred to the battleship on 4 January 1904. As Hasegawa had graduated on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, his class did not make the usual long-distance navigational training voyages, which only resumed after the conflict. On 23 May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kichisaburō Nomura
was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was the ambassador to the United States at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Early life and career Nomura was born in Wakayama city, Wakayama Prefecture. He graduated from the 26th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1898, with a ranking of 2nd out of a class of 57 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the corvette ''Hiei'' and battleship ''Yashima''. He was promoted to ensign on January 12, 1900, and to sub-lieutenant on October 1, 1901. As a crewman, he made a voyage to the United States on the battleship ''Mikasa'' from 1901 to 1902. Promoted to lieutenant on September 26, 1903, he served on a large number of ships, including the gunboat ''Maya'', corvette ''Kongō'', and cruiser ''Tokiwa''. He served as chief navigator on the cruiser ''Saien'' (1904) and cruiser ''Takachiho'' during the Russo-Japanese War. After the war, he was chief navigator on the cruisers ''Hashidate'' and ''Chitose''. In Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakayama (city)
Wakayama City Hall is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 351,391 in 157066 households and a population density of 1700 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Wakayama is located at the northwest corner of Wakayama Prefecture, bordered by Osaka Prefecture to the north and the Kii Channel and Kitan Strait to the west. It is located on the mouth of the Kinokawa River with the main urban center of the city on the river's left bank. Neighboring municipalities Wakayama Prefecture *Kainan * Kinokawa *Iwade Osaka Prefecture * Hannan * Misaki Hyōgo Prefecture *Sumoto, Hyōgo (separated by the Kitan Strait) Climate Wakayama has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Wakayama is 15.6 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1713 mm with September as the wettest month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omoto Tomomichi
Omoto may refer to: *Oomoto, a Japanese religion *''Omoto'', the Japanese name for the ornamental plant ''Rohdea japonica'' * Omoto, New Zealand, a small settlement inland from Greymouth Greymouth () ( Māori: ''Māwhera'') is the largest town in the West Coast region in the South Island of New Zealand, and the seat of the Grey District Council. The population of the whole Grey District is , which accounts for % of the West Coas ... in the South Island ** Omoto locomotive dump at Omoto, New Zealand {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Clan
The is a Japanese dynasty that was formerly a powerful '' daimyō'' family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji) through the Matsudaira clan. The early history of this clan remains a mystery. Members of the clan ruled Japan as '' shōguns'' during the Edo Period from 1603 to 1867. History Minamoto no Yoshishige (1135–1202), grandson of Minamoto no Yoshiie (1041–1108), was the first to take the name of Nitta. He sided with his cousin Minamoto no Yoritomo against the Taira clan (1180) and accompanied him to Kamakura. Nitta Yoshisue, 4th son of Yoshishige, settled at Tokugawa (Kozuke province) and took the name of that place. Their provincial history book did not mention Minamoto clan or Nitta clan. The nominal originator of the Matsudaira clan was reportedly Matsudaira Chikauji, who was originally a poor Buddhist monk. He reportedly descended from Nitta Yoshisue in the 8th generation and witnesse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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