Uehara Yūsaku

Uehara Yūsaku

Shishaku Uehara Yūsaku ( Japanese 上原 勇 作 ; * December 6, 1856 in Miyakonojō , Hyūga Province , Japan ; † November 8, 1933 in Tokyo ) was a Gensui of the Imperial Japanese Army and politician.

Life

Uehara Yūsaku

Uehara was 1856 in the province Hyūga, today's Miyazaki Prefecture , into a samurai family of Satsuma-han born. He attended the Army Officer's School together with Akiyama Yoshifuru , among others , and graduated in 1879. From 1881 to 1885 he went to France to study modern military technology. Later he fought in the Russo-Japanese War in the ranks of the 4th Army , which was under the command of his father-in-law Nozu Michitsura .

In April 1912 he was appointed Minister of the Army in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Saionji Kimmochi . Since the Saionji government intended to implement a strict austerity policy, it clashed with the army, which demanded funding for the establishment and maintenance of two further infantry divisions. Uehara finally resigned on December 21 of the same year. Since the Japanese constitution stipulated that the Minister of the Army must always be an active general in the Army, the Imperial Army blocked the government's request to appoint a successor. As a result of this refusal, the second Saionji cabinet was no longer capable of governing and had to be dissolved. This government dissolution, forced by the army, triggered what would later become known as Taishō Seihen , the political Taishō crisis .

From March to June 1913 Uehara was Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Division . In April 1914 he took over the post of Inspector General of Military Training, from where he switched to the post of Chief of the Army General Staff in December 1915 and this remained until March 1923, which is the second longest term of office of a Chief of Staff in Japan. During this time he approved the Siberian intervention together with Tanaka Giichi and Ugaki Issei, whereby Japanese and American troops intervened on the side of the White Army in the Russian Civil War . In 1921 Uehara's promotion to Gensui took place and later he was raised to the rank of Shishaku according to the Japanese nobility system of Kazoku .

Uehara died in Tokyo on December 8, 1933.

literature

• Trevor N. Dupuy : Encyclopedia of Military Biography. IB Tauris & Co, 1992, ISBN 1-85043-569-3 .
• Meirion Harries: Soldiers of the Sun. The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-679-75303-6 .
• Marius B. Jansen: The Making of Modern Japan. Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London 1992, ISBN 978-0-674-00334-7 .
• Richard Sims: Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000. Palgrave Macmillan, 1992, ISBN 0-312-23915-7 .

Web links

Commons : Uehara Yūsaku  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• National Parliamentary Library : Brief biography of Uehara on the website of the Japanese Parliamentary Library. (Engl.) Accessed on June 12, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Trevor Nevitt Dupuy: Encyclopedia of Military Biography. 1992.
2. ^ Richard Sims: Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000. 1992.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Uehara is the family name, Yūsaku the first name.