Nozu Michitsura (17 December 1840-18 October 1908) was a Field Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army who served in the Boshin War, First Sino-Japanese War, and the Russo-Japanese War.
Biography[]
Nozu Michitsura was born in Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain in 1840, and he rose from being a lower-rank samurai to being a company commander during the Boshin War, fighting in every battle. After the war, he joined the fledgling Imperial Japanese Army and became a colonel in 1874. He attended the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 before suppressing his former clansmen in the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, after which he became a major-general in 1878, a baron in 1884, a military attaché in Qing China in 1885, a lieutenant-general in May 1885, commander of the IJA 5th Division and later the Japanese 1st Army during the First Sino-Japanese War, a viscount in 1895, commander of the Japanese 4th Army during the Russo-Japanese War, a field marshal and marquis in 1906, and a member of the House of Peers from 1907 until his death in 1908.