Ishimoto Shinroku

Baron Ishimoto Shinroku was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and Minister of War under the second Saionji Kinmochi administration from 1911 to 1912.

Ishimoto was born to a samuraiclass family in Himeji, Harima Province . Soon after his birth, his familys house in Edo was destroyed in the Ansei earthquake of 1854, and in the subsequent Meiji Restoration, his father lost his employment and privileged status. Despite his familys desperate financial situation, he was sent to the Daigaku Nank for a military education, and was enlisted as a cadet in the fledgling Imperial Japanese Army.

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