Ogawa Mataji

Ogawa Mataji, around 1904.

Shishaku Ogawa Mataji ( Japanese 小川 又 次 ; born October 22, 1848 in Kokura , Japan , † October 20, 1909 in Tokyo , Japanese Empire ) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army .

Life

Ogawa was born in the Kurume fief near today's Fukuoka Prefecture and became an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army in 1872. Two years later he took part in the punitive expedition to Taiwan . Ogawa assumed his first command during the First Sino-Japanese War . In 1895 he was appointed Danshaku (baron) according to the Japanese nobility system of Kazoku . Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

During the Russo-Japanese War , Ogawa was given the command of the 4th Division , which was subordinate to the 2nd Army under General Oku Yasukata . He led the division during the battles on Nanshan , Te-li-ssu and Liaoyang . During the latter battle he was wounded and returned to Tokyo , where he was promoted to general and shortly afterwards left the armed forces.

In 1907 he was appointed shishaku , the Japanese equivalent of a vice count. Ogawa Mataji died on October 20, 1909 in Tokyo of peritonitis .

Awards

• Order of the Golden Consecration , 2nd class, 1907

literature

• Kowner, Rotem : The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6841-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kowner, p. 269

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