Ōshima Yoshimasa
Imperial Japanese Army general and Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory.
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Viscount Ōshima Yoshimasa was a general in the early Imperial Japanese Army who served during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. He later became Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory. His great-great-grandson, Shinzō Abe, served as Prime Minister of Japan.
Quick Facts
- Honorific prefix
- Viscount
- Office
- 1st Governor-General of the Kwantung Leased Territory
- Monarch
- Meiji
- Took office
- 18 October 1905
- Left office
- 26 April 1912
- Successor
- Fukushima Yasumasa
- Born
- 20 September 1850
- Birthplace
- Yuya, Nagato, Japan
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Biography
Ōshima Yoshimasa was the eldest son of a samurai from the Chōshū Domain, in what is now Yamaguchi Prefecture. He fought on the side of Emperor Meiji as part of the Satchō Alliance during the Boshin War against the Tokugawa shogunate. For this victory, he was made a baron in the kazoku peerage system and given command of the Tsushima Garrison. During the Russo-Japanese War, Ōshima led the 3rd Division as part of General Oku Yasukata’s Second Army. He commanded the division at the battles of Liaoyang, Shaho, and Mukden.
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