Nobuyoshi Muto
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| Baron Muto Nobuyoshi | |
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| 15 July 1868 – 27 July 1933 | |
 Japanese General Baron Muto Nobuyoshi |
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| Place of birth | Saga, Saga Prefecture |
| Place of death | Shinkyo, Manchukuo |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Rank | Field Marshal |
| Commands | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Battles/wars | First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War |
| Awards | Order of the Golden Kite (1st class) Order of the Rising Sun (1st class) |
Baron Nobuyoshi Muto (武藤信義 ?) (15 July 1868 – 27 July 1933) was Commander of the Kwangtung Army in 1933, Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo, and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Born to an ex-samurai family from Saga Prefecture, after graduating from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, he served in the Sino-Japanese War as a lieutenant in the infantry. After the war (and his promotion to captain) he was sent twice to Russia as a military attaché, spending time in Vladivostok and in Odessa. He was fluent in the Russian language, which proved invaluable during the Russo-Japanese War. After his promotion to major, then colonel, he returned to Japan in a posting with the Imperial Guards, before being dispatched to Russia during the Siberian Expedition against the Bolshevik Red Army. He spent time in Harbin, Irkutsk and Omsk.
General Muto Chief of 2nd Section (Manoeuvers),1st Bureau, General Staff and Head of 1st Bureau, General Staff amongst Head of General Affairs Bureau, General Staff, General Officer Commanding 3rd Division,Vice Chief of Staff and Inspector-General of Military Training.
He was Commander in Chief of the Kwangtung Army, from 28 July 1926 – 26 August 1927 and was active in the founding of Manchukou. After a stint as Inspector-General of Military Training (26 August 1927 – 26 May 1932, he then returned to Manchuria from 1932 – 1933 as Commander in Chief of the Manchukuo Imperial Army, while simultaneously holding the positions of Commander of the Kwantung Army and Governor of Kwantung Leased Territory. As Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Emperor Showa, Muto signed the Japan-Manchukuo Protocol of 1932. In 1933, he supervised Operation Nekka, the invasion of Jehol. In early 1933, he was promoted to field marshal.
Diagnosed with jaundice, he died in a hospital in Shinkyo, Manchukou. His elevation to the title of danshaku(baron) was posthumous, as was his award of the Order of the Golden Kite (1st class) and Order of the Rising Sun (1st class). His grave is at the temple of Gokoku-ji in Tokyo.
[edit] References
- Dupuy, Trevor N. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-7858-0437-4
- Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
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- Generals from Japan [1]
