Ryūzō Sejima
was a Japanese army officer and business leader. Early life and military career Sejima was born in Toyama, Japan. His father, , was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army who served under General Maresuke Nogi during the Russo-Japanese War, and was later the mayor of the village of Matsuzawa in Nishitonami District, Toyama. Sejima graduated from in 1938. During the Pacific War, he was as a staff officer at the Imperial Headquarters. He instructed the Guadalcanal recovery strategy, New Guinea strategy, and in July 1945 moved out to the Kwantung Army as a staff officer, where he negotiated Japan's cease-fire with Soviet General Aleksandr Vasilevsky. He became a prisoner of war alongside General Otozō Yamada following Japan's surrender in 1945, and was detained for 11 years in Siberia. He was briefly flown from Vladivostok to Tokyo in 1946 to testify at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Most of Sejima's 11 years in Siberia were spent in a prison i ...
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Toyama, Toyama
is the capital city of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, located on the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Chūbu region on central Honshū, about north of the city of Nagoya and northwest of Tokyo. , the city had an estimated population of 415,844 in 176,643 households, and a population density of 335 persons per km2. Its total area was . Overview The city has been designated an environmental model city by the national government for its efforts to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Cityscapes File:Toyama Castle (4207284334).jpg, Toyama Castle（2009） File:Anyobo, Toyama, Toyama Prefecture 930-0881, Japan - panoramio (35).jpg, Skyline of Toyama City（2015） File:View from Toyama City Hall, north side.jpg, CBD of Toyama（2018） File:Sogawa st.jpeg, Downtown Sōgawa（2016） File:Fugan unga.JPG, Toyama Kansui park（2016） Geography Located in the middle of its prefecture, Toyama is a seaside city by the coast of the Sea of Japan. Its municipal territory borders with t ...
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Army War College (Japan)
:''This article deals with the Empire of Japan's Army War College. For other war colleges, see: War college.'' The ; Short form: of the Empire of Japan was founded in 1882 in Minato, Tokyo, Minato, Tokyo to modernization, modernize and Westernization, Westernize the Imperial Japanese Army. Much of the empire's elite including Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministers during the period of Japanese militarism were graduates of the college. History Supported by influential pro-German ministers and army officers, the Army War College was modeled after the Prussian ''Preußische Kriegsakademie'', with German officers hired as Oyatoi gaikokujin to provide training. The most prominent of these instructors was Major Jakob Meckel, Klemens W.J. Meckel. He was influential in assisting in the reorganization of the standing army from a garrison-based system into a division (military), divisional system. Reporting directly to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, the college ...
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Yasuhiro Nakasone
was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 1982 to 1987. He was a member of the House of Representatives for more than 50 years. He was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister. Early life Nakasone was born in Takasaki in Gunma, a prefecture northwest of Tokyo, on 27 May 1918. He was the second son of Nakasone Matsugoro II, a lumber dealer, and Nakamura Yuku. He had five siblings: an elder brother named Kichitaro, an elder sister named Shoko, a younger brother named Ryosuke and another younger brother and younger sister who both died in childhood. The Nakasone family had been of the ''samurai'' class during the Edo period, and claimed direct descent from the Minamoto clan through the famous Minamoto no Yoshimitsu and through his son Minamoto no Yoshikiyo (d. 1149). According to ...
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Ataka & Co
Ataka may refer to: *Attack (political party), Bulgarian nationalist political party * Ataka (play), a Japanese play used as a source for the film ''The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail'' *9M120 Ataka, a Russian-made anti-tank guided missile * Japanese Gunboat Ataka was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 20 May 1933 ''Ataka'' was incorporated into the 3rd Fleet, as flagship of the 11th Gun ...

People's Republic Of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land, the List of countries and territories by land borders, most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces of China, provinces, five autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, four direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and two special administrative regions of China, Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the List of cities in China by population, most populous ci ...
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