Yamagata aritomo biography books

Japanese military commander and prime minister (1838–1922)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Yamagata.

PrinceYamagata Aritomo (山縣 有朋, 14 June 1838 – 1 February 1922) was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1889 to 1891, and from 1898 to 1900.

He was a leading member of the genrō, a group of senior statesmen who dominated politics during the Meiji era.

Yamagata aritomo biography books

As the Imperial Japanese Army's inaugural Chief of Staff, he was the chief architect of the Empire of Japan's military and its reactionary ideology;^[1] some historians consider him the "father" of Japanese militarism.^[2]

Yamagata was born in the Chōshū Domain to a low-ranking samurai family, and after the opening of Japan in 1854 became active in the movement to overthrow the shogunate.

As a member of the new government after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, he went overseas to study military systems, and from 1873 headed the Army Ministry. Yam