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Sadao Araki
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Sadao Araki (1877–1966) was a Japanese military officer and politician who served in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was a baron and held allegiance to the Empire of Japan. Araki participated in the Russo-Japanese War, the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War II. He was employed by Hosei University and spoke Japanese.
Born in Komae, Araki died of a myocardial infarction in Totsukawa. He was buried at Tama Cemetery. His notable awards included the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Inter-Allied Victory Medals, Order of the Rising Sun, and Order of the Golden Kite. He was convicted of crimes against humanity.
Araki is associated with quotes such as "The sword is our steel Bible!" and statements regarding the Soviet Union. He is referenced by 649 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 31 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 0
Top works
- The United States of America, The Republic of China [and others] against, Araki, Sadao; Dohihara, Kenji [and others] Indictment
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Sweden
- Active from
- 1980-04-24
Discography
- Ikara2002
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A novel potent vasoconstrictor peptide produced by vascular endothelial cells
· 1988 · cited 8,487x
- KEGG for linking genomes to life and the environment
· 2007 · cited 5,283x
- Lecanemab in Early Alzheimer’s Disease
· 2023 · cited 4,964x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,511x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The sword is our steel Bible!”
- “In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.”
- “Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.”
- “According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.”
- “A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.”
- “If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Prime minister
- Fumimaro Konoe Kiichirō Hiranuma
- Preceded by
- Kōichi Kido
- Succeeded by
- Kakichi Kawarada
- Monarch
- Hirohito
- Born
- ( 1877-05-26 ) 26 May 1877, Komae, Tokyo , Japan
- Died
- 2 November 1966 (1966-11-02) (aged 89), Totsukawa , Nara, Japan
- Resting place
- Tama Cemetery
- Awards
- Order of the Sacred Treasures (1st class) Order of the Golden Kite (2nd class) Order of the Rising Sun (1st class)
- Allegiance
- Empire of Japan
- Branch service
- Imperial Japanese Army
- Years of service
- 1898–1936
- Rank
- General
- Commands
- 6th Division
- Battles wars
- Russo-Japanese War Siberian Intervention
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Baron Sadao Araki (荒木 貞夫, Araki Sadao; 26 May 1877 – 2 November 1966) was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was regarded as the leader of the Kodoha, a political faction within the Imperial Japanese Army and served as Minister of the Army under Prime Ministers Inukai and Saitō. He was forced from active service in the aftermath of the February 26 incident. He later served as Minister of Education under Prime Ministers Konoe and Hiranuma.
After World War II, he was convicted of war crimes and given a life sentence but was released in 1955.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sadao Araki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.