Osami Nagano

Admiral of the Fleet Osami Nagano was a Japanese career naval officer and Admiral of the Fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1943. He was more of an administrative officer than a sea commander. From April 1941 to February 1944, he was Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff. He was the founder of the Chiba Institute of Technology.

Nagano was born in Kchi to an exsamurai family. In 1900, he graduated from the 28th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, ranked second in his class of 105 cadets. After midshipman service on the cruiser Hashidate and battleship Asahi, he was commissioned an ensign and assigned to the cruiser Asama. During the RussoJapanese War, he served in a number of staff positions. The closest he came to combat was as commander of a landbased heavy naval gun unit during the siege of Port Arthur.

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