Viscount was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Biography

Machijiri was the fourth son of the ''

kuge The was a Japanese aristocratic class that dominated the Japanese Imperial Court in Kyoto. The ''kuge'' were important from the establishment of Kyoto as the capital during the Heian period in the late 8th century until the rise of the Kamakur ...

'' Mibu Motonaka (1835–1906) from an ancient court nobility family of Kyoto. He was adopted into the '' kazoku'' peerage by Viscount Machijiri Kazuhiro and inherited the title of ''shishaku''. His wife was the elder daughter of Prince Kaya Kuninori, Yukiko. Machijiri graduated from the 21st class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1909, where his classmates included

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and

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. He later graduated from the 29th class of the Army Staff College in 1917. He was a

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to France from 1919–1921, participated for three months in the Versailles Peace Treaty Negotiations, and remained as a resident officer in Paris from 1921–1923, and again from 1925–1926. Machijiri was

Aide-de-camp to the Emperor of Japan In Japan, the is a special military official whose primary duties are to report military affairs to the Emperor and act as a close attendant ( chamberlain). From 1896 through to 1945, a small number of army and naval aides-de-camp were supplied t ...

from 1930–1935. From 1935–1936, he commanded the Artillery Regiment of the Imperial Guard, and served as Chief of Army Affairs Section of Military Affairs Bureau within the Ministry of War from 1936–1938. At the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Machijiri was again appointed as Aide-de-camp to Emperor

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in 1937, but was soon transferred to become Vice

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of the

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. He returned to Japan the same year for staff duties within the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, but was sent into the field again from 1939–1941 as commander of the IJA 6th Division. From 1941–1942, he was Inspector-General of the

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Section. In 1942, Machijiri was appointed commander of the Indochina Garrison Army. Recalled to Japan in 1944, he survived the war and went into retirement in 1945.

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Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/6)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Machijiri, Kazumoto 1889 births 1950 deaths Kazoku Japanese generals Japanese military personnel of World War II