1. Osami Nagano was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of the leaders of Japan's military during most of the Second World War.
10 Facts About Osami Nagano
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In 1910, Osami Nagano was promoted to lieutenant commander and assigned as chief gunnery officer on the battleship Katori.
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From December 1920, Osami Nagano was a military attache to the United States.
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In February 1924, Osami Nagano was chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff Third Section.
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From 1928 to 1929, Osami Nagano was commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy.
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Osami Nagano introduced and influenced Progressive education method such as Dalton Plan to Japanese Naval Academy.
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Osami Nagano was the chief naval delegate to the London Naval Conference 1935.
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In 1936, Osami Nagano was appointed Navy Minister under Prime Minister Koki Hirota.
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Osami Nagano spent the remainder of the war as an advisor to the government.
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Osami Nagano was charged with Class A war criminal charges before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo.