Yamanashi Hanzō

Infobox Military Person
name= Yamanashi Hanzō
lived= 6 April 1864 – 2 July 1944
placeofbirth=Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
placeofdeath= Tokyo, Japan


caption=General Yamanashi Hanzō
nickname=
allegiance=Empire of Japan
branch=
serviceyears=1886 -1927
rank=General
commands=IJA 18th Division
unit=
battles= First Sino-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
World War I
awards=
family=
laterwork=Minster of War
Governor-General of Koreanihongo|Yamanashi Hanzō |山梨半造|Yamanashi Hanzō|extra=6 April 1864 – 2 July 1944 was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Governor-General of Korea from 1927 to 1929.

Biography

A native of Kanagawa prefecture, Yamanashi graduated from the 8th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1886 and from the 8th class of the Army Staff College in 1892. He was assigned to the IJA 4th Infantry Brigade and served in combat during the First Sino-Japanese War with the IJA 2nd Army.

After the war, he served in a number of administrative and staff positions, before being posted to Germany as a military attaché from 1898 to 1902.

During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, he was Vice Chief of Staff of the IJA 2nd Army and subsequently Chief of Staff of the IJA 3rd Division. He returned to Europe immediately after the end of the war as military attaché to Austria-Hungary from the end of 1905 to 1907, and again to Germany from in 1907.

Yamanashi was promoted to major general in 1911, and assigned command of the IJA 30th Infantry Brigade. He was transferred to the IJA 1st Infantry Brigade the following year. After serving in a number of administrative positions within the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, he was again given a field command during World War I, commanding the IJA 18th Division at the Battle of Tsingtao. In 1916, Yamanashi was promoted to lieutenant general and in 1921 he was promoted to full general.

From 1921-1923, Yamanashi served as Minister of War under the cabinets of Prime Ministers Hara, Takahashi and Kato Tomosaburo. [Dupuy, Encyclopedia of Military Biography]

He retired from active military service in 1927. From 1927-1929, he served as Japanese Governor-General of Korea. [Wendel, Axis History Database]

References

Books

*cite book
last = Coox
first = Alvin
year = 1990
title = Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939
publisher = Stanford University Press
location =
id = 0804718350
*cite book
last = Dupuy
first = Trevor N.
year = 1992
title = Encyclopedia of Military Biography
publisher = I B Tauris & Co Ltd
location =
id = ISBN 1-85043-569-3
*cite book
last = MacNamara
first = Dennis L.
year = 1990
title = The Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise: 1910-1945
publisher = Cambridge University Press
location =
id = ISBN 0521385652

External links

*cite web
last = Wendel
first = Marcus
url = http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7148
title = Governor-Generals of Korea
work = Axis History Database
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E01E6DA1738EF31A25752C1A9609C946095D6CF&oref=slogin New York Times article from 1924 on Yamanashi's promotion to War Minister]

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