Uehara Yūsaku
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| Baron Uehara Yūsaku | |
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| (6 December 1856 - 8 November 1933) | |
 Japanese General Baron Uehara Yūsaku |
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| Place of birth | Miyakonojo, Hyūga, Japan |
| Place of death | Tokyo, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/branch |  Imperial Japanese Army |
| Years of service | 1879 -1933 |
| Rank | Field Marshal |
| Commands held | IJA 3rd Division |
| Battles/wars | Russo-Japanese War |
| Other work | Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff |
- In this Japanese name, the family name is Uehara.
Baron Yūsaku Uehara (上原 勇作 Uehara Yūsaku?, 6 December 1856 – 8 November 1933) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Miyakonojo, Hyūga province (currently Miyazaki prefecture, Uehara's father was a samurai of the Satsuma domain. He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1879 with Akiyama Yoshifuru as one of his classmates. Uehara was sent to France for studies on modern military techniques from 1881-1885. He later fought in the Russo-Japanese War, as a staff officer in the IJA 4th Army commanded by his father-in-law, General Nozu Michitsura. [1]
In December 1912, Uehara was appointed War Minister in Prime Minister Saionji Kinmochi's second cabinet. Since the civilian government was pursuing a tight fiscal policy, it soon came into conflict with the army, which was demanding an increase in funding for another two infantry divisions. When Uehara resigned as War 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". [2]
From March-June 1913, Uehara was commander in chief of the IJA 3rd Division. In 1915, Uehara became Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, and remained in this post longer than any person before or after (with the exception of a member of the Imperial House). While in this position, he (together with Tanaka Giichi and Ugaki Issei authorized the Siberian Intervention in support of White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army in the Russian Civil War.
Uehara received the rank of field marshal on 22 April 1922, and was ennobled with the title of danshaku (baron) under the kazoku peerage system the same year.[3]
Later, Uehara became Inspector General of Military Training, one of the three most prestigious posts within the Army. He was also the founder of the Imperial Japanese Army Engineering Corps.
Uehara died in 1933.
[edit] References
[edit] Books
- 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.
- Jansen, Marius B. (1992). The Making of Modern Japan. Belknap Press.
- Sims, Richard. (1992). Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-23915-7.
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library. Uehara Yusaku. Portraits of Modern Historical Figures.
[edit] Notes
| Preceded by Ishimoto Shinroku |
War Minister 1912-1912 |
Succeeded by Kigoshi Yasutsuna |
