Uehara YÅ«saku

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

Life

Uehara was born in 1856 in the province of Hyūga, Miyazaki Prefecture today, in a samurai family of the Satsuma -han. He attended, among others, together with Akiyama Yoshifuru, Army Officer School and graduated in 1879 from. 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 Nozu Michitsura.

In April 1912 he was appointed to the second cabinet of Prime Minister Saionji Kimmochi to the Defense Minister. Since the Saionji government commemorated perform a strict austerity, they clashed with the army together, which called for funding for installation and maintenance of two additional infantry divisions. On 21 December the same year Uehara finally resigned. Since the Japanese Constitution stipulated that the Army Minister must always be an active Army general, blocked the imperial army, the demand of the government to appoint a successor. By this refusal the second Saionji cabinet was no longer capable of governing and had to dissolve. This forced the army government resolution triggered the later so-called Taishō strain, the Political Taishō crisis.

From March to June 1913 Uehara was commander of the 3rd Division. In April 1914 he took over the post of Inspector General of Military Training from where he moved in December 1915 to the post of Chief of the Army General Staff and this remained until March 1923, which is the total second-longest tenure of a chief of staff in Japan. During this time he approved intervened together with Tanaka Giichi and Ugaki Issei the Siberian intervention whereby Japanese and American troops on the part of the White Army in the Russian Civil War. In 1921, first was Ueharas promotion to Gensui and later the elevation to the rank of a Shishaku after the Japanese nobility system of Kazoku.

On December 8, 1933 Uehara died in Tokyo.