Mitsue Yui (27 November 1860 – 18 September 1940) was a General of the Imperial Japanese Army during the First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and the Russian Civil War.
Biography[]
Mitsue Yui was born on 27 November 1860 in the Tosa Domain of Shikoku, and he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1882. He served as a staff officer during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer Rebellion, and he was promoted to Colonel and commander of the Japanese 5th Infantry Division in 1899. He distinguished himself under Yasukata Oku at the Battle of Mukden in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War. In 1907, Yui made Major-General and became a Lieutenant-General and commandant of the Army Staff College in 1914, staying in that post during World War I. In 1918, he became Chief-of-Staff of the Siberian Expeditionary Army during Japan's intervention in the Russian Civil War, and from 1919 to 1922 he led the Japanese garrison at Qingdao in China as a full General. Retiring in 1923, he died in 1940 at the age of 80.