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Baron Ijichi Ksuke was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the First SinoJapanese War and Chief of Staff of the Japanese Third Army during the Siege of Port Arthur in the RussoJapanese War. His wife was the niece of Marshal Oyama Iwao.
Ijichi was born to a samurai family in Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain . He was a graduate of the 2nd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. After serving in the Imperial Guard, he was sent in 1880 to France for four years of training at the cole spciale militaire de SaintCyr, and from there to Germany. He was recalled before the start of the First SinoJapanese War to serve on the planning department of the Imperial General Headquarters. After the war, he was sent as a military attach to Great Britain from 18981900.
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