Baron Sadao Araki was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.
24 Facts About Sadao Araki
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Sadao Araki later served as Minister of Education during the Konoe and Hiranuma administrations.
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Sadao Araki graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in November 1897 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in June of the following year.
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Sadao Araki served on the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff in April 1908 and served as a language officer stationed in Russia from November 1909 to May 1913, when he was made military attache to Saint Petersburg during World War I Sadao Araki was promoted to major in November 1909 and to lieutenant colonel in August 1915 and was assigned to the Kwantung Army.
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Sadao Araki served as Provost Marshal General from January 1924 to May 1925, wheby he rejoined the Army General Staff as a Bureau Chief.
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Sadao Araki was promoted to lieutenant general in July 1927 and became Commandant of the Army War College in August 1928.
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Sadao Araki served as commander of the IJA 6th Division from 1929 through 1931, when he was appointed Deputy Inspector General of Military Training, one of the most prestigious posts within the army.
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Sadao Araki was promoted to the rank of full general in October 1933.
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On 31 December 1931, Sadao Araki was appointed Minister of War in the cabinet of Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai.
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In September 1932, Sadao Araki started to become more outspoken in promoting totalitarianism, militarism, and expansionism.
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Sadao Araki strongly promoted Seishin Kyoiku for the army.
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Sadao Araki became a member of the Supreme War Council but on 23 January 1934 resigned as War Minister because of ill health.
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Sadao Araki was ennobled with the title of baron in 1935 under the kazoku peerage system.
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Sadao Araki proposed the incorporation of the samurai code in the national education system.
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Sadao Araki promoted the use of the official academic text Kokutai no Hongi, and the "moral national bible" Shinmin no Michi, an effective catechism on national, religious, cultural, social, and ideological topics.
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Sadao Araki continued to serve as Education Minister when Konoe was succeeded as Prime Minister by Hiranuma Kiichiro.
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Sadao Araki then continued to serve as an advisor to the government as a State Councillor.
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In 1924, Sadao Araki founded the Kokuhonsha, a secret society containing some of the most powerful generals, admirals, and civilians dedicated to his statist philosophy that mixed totalitarianism, militarism, expansionism, and loyalty to the emperor.
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Sadao Araki was theoretician of the even more radical Sakurakai, which actively attempted to bring about a Showa Reformation by coups d'etat.
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The groups were later to merge into the Imperial Way Faction and incorporated a mixture of right-wing and national socialist ideas, particularly those of Kita Ikki and the pro-fascist philosophies of Nakano Seigo of which Sadao Araki was a leading member.
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In January 1939, Sadao Araki became involved in the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement and revitalized it by having it sponsor public rallies, radio programs, printed propaganda, and discussion seminars at tonarigumi neighborhood associations.
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Sadao Araki was a supporter of the unauthorized studies of China and the preparation of war scenarios by radical junior officer cliques within the Army.
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Sadao Araki arranged for another protege, Chosen Army commander Senjuro Hayashi, to be briefed to move his forces from Korea northward into Manchuria without permission from Tokyo in support of the Kwantung Army.
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Sadao Araki died in 1966, and his grave is at Tama Cemetery, in Fuchu in Tokyo.