Aritomo Yamagata
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- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers
- Curriculum: Asian History
Article abstract: Military significance: Yamagata was an important modernizer of Japan’s army and one of the key architects of its planning, philosophy, and campaigns between 1868 and his death.
Aritomo Yamagata was an important officer in the campaign to overthrow the Tokugawa bakufu (shogunate), and he emerged as one of the Meiji government’s most important military leaders. To modernize Japan’s army, Yamagata introduced Western drill and tactics and a modern conscription system in the early 1870’s. In 1877, he led the Japanese Imperial Army to...
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