Takashima Tomonosuke

Takashima Tomonosuke

Shishaku Takashima Tomonosuke ( Japanese 高 島 鞆 之 助 ; * December 18, 1844 in Satsuma-han , Japanese Empire ; † January 11, 1916 ) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army and a politician.

Life

Takashima Tomonosuke was born in 1844 into a samurai family of the fiefdom ( han ) Satsuma. After his training at the Han School Zōshikan , he fought on the side of the imperial troops in the Boshin War against the Tokugawa Shogunate . In 1874 he joined the Imperial Japanese Army, which had only been set up a few years earlier. He served as deputy head of the First Office of the Army Ministry and as deputy commander of the Kyōdōdan , the school for non-commissioned officers.

During the Satsuma rebellion, he fought with the 1st detached brigade against the troops of the Han from which he himself came. After the war, he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1883. According to the nobility system of Kazoku , Takashima received the title of Shishaku (Viscount) in 1884 and in 1887 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class.

In 1888 he was given command of the 4th Division and in 1891 he was appointed Minister of Defense in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Matsukata Masayoshi . In 1892 he was appointed to the Japanese Privy Council and in 1895 he became the first deputy governor-general of Taiwan, which was ceded by China to Japan . From 1896 to 1898 he served in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi and Matsukata Masayoshi as Colonial Minister and under Matsukata again as Minister of the Army. From 1899 until his death in 1916 he was again a member of the Privy Council.

literature

• Meirion Harries: Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-679-75303-6 .

Web links

• National Parliamentary Library : Takashima's short biography on the Japanese Parliamentary Library website. (Engl.) Accessed on June 9, 2012

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