Nire Kagenori

Nire Kagenori

Vice Count Nire Kagenori ( Japanese 仁 礼 景 範 ; * February 24, 1831 in Satsuma , today: Kagoshima Prefecture ; † November 22, 1900 ) was a Japanese Vice Admiral in the Imperial Navy who was Minister of the Navy between 1892 and 1893 .

Life

Military training and naval officer

Nire Kagenori, who was descended from the Kagoshima Samurai , began studying in the United States in 1867 and entered the Ministry of Military Affairs as Corvette Captain (Shosa) on September 7, 1871 , before moving to the newly established Ministry of Navy on March 8, 1872 . From April 1872 he worked in the maintenance department of the accounting department and from November 1872 in the office of the naval minister as well as in the headquarters of the admiralty of the Imperial Japanese Navy . On June 18, 1873 he was deputy director in the Ministry of Navy and then on October 11, 1873 for a sea assignment on board the frigate Kasuga . Then he found since June 5, 1874 use in the command of the marines, where he was promoted to captain at sea (Daisa) and deputy director on June 12, 1874 . After a short term, re-use as deputy director in the Navy Ministry from September to October 1874, he was transferred to the Takao-maru on October 23, 1874 .

Shortly after Japan was forced to open up by Western powers , Japan did so again in Korea: In 1875 they sent a warship which provoked incidents at Busan and Ganghwado west of Seoul. As a result, the Koreans were forced to open the ports of Incheon , W Busnsan and Busan to Japanese traders through the Ganghwado Treaty in 1876 . Nire was then Marine Resident in Busan between December 23, 1875 and March 30, 1877. After his return to Japan he acted from March 30, 1877 to March 12, 1878 as director of the branch of the Ministry of Navy in Nagasaki and then between March 12 and April 5, 1878 as director of the Tōkai site.

Promotion to Vice Admiral and Minister of the Navy

On April 5, 1878, Nire succeeded Captain Itō Toshiyoshi as director of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy ( Kaigun Heigakkō ) in Tsukiji and received his promotion to Rear Admiral ( Shōshō ) there on February 4, 1880 . After he had resigned from his position as commander of the Naval Academy on December 8, 1880, he was initially on leave without use and on June 16, 1881 initially took over the post as commander-in-chief of the Tōkai naval district. In addition, he was also director of the engineering academy on June 16, 1882 and also commander of the medium fleet on July 31, 1882 , before he was exclusively commander of the medium fleet from October 12, 1882. On January 21, 1884, he returned to the Ministry of the Navy, where he was initially head of the Department of Naval Affairs and then, from February 13, 1884, chief of the naval operations staff. In the following period he was raised on July 7, 1885 as Vice Count ( Shishaku ) in the Hereditary Bad ( Kazoku ), on June 29, 1885 promoted to Vice Admiral ( Chūjō ) and on February 4, 1886 also a member of the Admiralty Committee. He was then on March 16, 1886 Vice Chief of the General Staff for the Navy Department and on May 14, 1888 Chief of the Naval Staff, before he took over the post of Vice-Admiral Nakamuta Kuranosuke on March 8, 1889 as Commander-in-Chief of the Yokosuka Naval District . He then succeeded Vice Admiral Hayashi Kiyoyasu as director of the Naval College ( Kaigun Daigakkō ) on June 17, 1891 and held this post until August 8, 1892, whereupon Vice Admiral Nakamuta Kuranosuke succeeded him on December 12, 1892.

Nire himself was appointed by Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi as Minister of the Navy in his second cabinet on August 8, 1892 , and held this ministerial office until he was replaced by Saigō Tsugumichi on March 11, 1893. As Minister of the Navy, he was particularly committed to improving the armament of the Imperial Navy. He then retired from active military service, but became a member of the Secret Privy Council Sūmitsu-in , a body that advised the Tennō .

His grave is in the Aoyama Cemetery in Minato , Tokyo.

His daughter Nire Haruko was the wife of Saitō Makoto , an admiral of the Imperial Navy, who was also Minister of the Navy between 1906 and 1914, Governor General of Korea from 1919 to 1927 and again from 1929 to 1931 , Prime Minister between May 1932 and July 1934 and at the same time from May to July 1932 was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan . His eldest son Nire Keiichi died in the Russo-Japanese War as a department head on the ship of the line Hatsuse . His third son, Nire Kageo, was an entomologist specializing in insects on the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan .

Background literature

• Trevor N. Dupuy : Encyclopedia of Military Biography , IB Tauris & Co Ltd., 1992, ISBN 1-85043-569-3 .
• Andrew Cobbing: The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West , Routledge Shorton, 1998, ISBN 1-873410-81-6 .
• JE Hoare: Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits , Volume III, Routledge Shorton, 1999, ISBN 1-873410-89-1 .
• J. Charles Schencking: Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, And The Emergence Of The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 , Stanford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8047-4977-9 .
• Nire Kagenori: 仁 礼 景 範 航 米 日記 . (PDF) In: The annual research report. Kagoshima Prefectural College, March 25, 1985; Retrieved January 2, 2017 (Japanese, Nires Diary). 

Web links

• Entry on Imperial Japanese Navy
• Entry in the National Parliamentary Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 仁 礼 景 範 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved January 2, 2017 (Japanese). 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Nire is the family name, Kagenori the first name.