Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu Born June 25, 1902 Aoyama Detached Palace, Tokyo, Japan Died January 24, 1953 (aged 50) Kugenuma Title Prince Chichibu Spouse Setsuko Matsudaira Parents Taisho and Teimei

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His Imperial Highness Prince Chichibu (Yasuhito) of Japan (25 June 1902 - 4 January 1953) (jp: 秩父宮 雍仁, Chichibu no miya Yasuhito Shinnō), also known as Prince Yasuhito, was the second son of the Taisho Emperor and a younger brother of the Emperor Shōwa. As a member of the Japanese imperial family, he was the patron of several sporting, medical, and international exchange organizations. Before and after World War II, the English-speaking prince and his wife attempted to foster good relations between Japan and the United Kingdom and enjoyed a good rapport with the British Royal Family. However, like the other Japanese imperial princes of his generation, he was an active-duty officer in the Japanese Imperial Army. June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 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Background and Family

Born at Aoyama Detached Palace in Tokyo, the second son of the then-Crown Prince Yoshihito (later Emperor Taishō) and Crown Princess Sadako (later Empress Teimei), the prince was originally titled Atsu no miya (Prince Atsu). He and his elder brother were separated from their parents and entrusted to the care a respected ex-naval officer, Count Sumiyoshi Kawamura and his wife. After Kawamura died in 1904, however, the young princes rejoined their partents at the Tōgū-goshu (crown prince's residence) on the grounds of the Akasaka estate. He attended the elementary and secondary departments of the Gakushuin (or Peers' School) along with Prince Hirohito, and his younger brother, Prince Nobuhito (born in 1905). (A fourth brother, Prince Takahito, was born in 1915). Prince Chichibu enrolled in the Central Military Preparatory School in 1917 and then in the Imperial Military Academy in 1922. Tokyo , literally Eastern capital)   is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, the home of the Japanese Imperial Family, and the de facto[1] capital of Japan. ... Empress Sadako (June 25, 1884 - May 17, 1951) was married to the Taisho Emperor and was the mother of Emperor Hirohito. ... Count Sumiyoshi Kawamura, (1836-1904), a retired admiral, Satsuma samurai. ... Prince Takamatsu His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu (Nobuhito) of Japan (Takamatsu no miya Nobuhito Shinnō) (1 March 1905 - 3 February 1987) was the third son of the Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei and a younger brother of the Emperor Shōwa. ... His Imperial Highness, Prince Mikasa (Takahito) of Japan (Mikasa no miya Takahito Shinnō; born December 15, 1915) is the fourth and youngest son of the Emperor Taishō and the Empress Teimei. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

On 26 May 1922, Emperor Taishō granted his second son the title Chichibu no miya and the authorization to start a new branch of the imperial family. In 1925, the Prince went to Great Britain to study at Magdalen College, Oxford University. He returned to Japan in January 1927 following the death of Emperor Taishō, who for some time had suffered from debilitating physical and mental ill-health. Until the birth of his nephew Crown Prince Akihito in December 1933, Prince Chichibu was heir presumptive to the Chrysanthemum throne. May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Magdalen College could be Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalene College, Cambridge This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Emperor Akihito reads the Speech from the Throne to the Japanese Diet His Imperial Majesty Akihito (明仁) (born December 23, 1933) is the current and 125th Emperor of Japan. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Breast Star of the Order of the Chrysanthemum The Chrysanthemum Throne (菊花紋章; kikukamonshō, or kikkamonshō) is the common name given to the Imperial throne of Japan. ...

Chichibunomiya rugby stadium was named after the Prince, who loved watching rugby from his time at Oxford. Chichibunomiya 秩父宮 rugby stadium in the Kita Aoyama district of central Tokyo is the spiritual home of Japanese rugby and the headquarters of the Japan Rugby Football Union. ...

Marriage

On 28 September 1928, he married Miss Matsudaira Setsuko (9 September 1909 - 25 August 1995), the daughter of Matsudaira Yasuhito, sometime Japanese ambassador to the United States and later Great Britain (and still later, imperial household minister), and his wife, the former Nabeshima Nobuko. Although technically born a commoner, the new princess was a scion of the Matsudaira of Aizu, a cadet branch of the Tokugawa shogunate. Her paternal grandfather was, Matsudaira Katamori, the last daimyo of Aizu, who had been created a viscount in the new kazoku in 1884. Prince and Princess Chichibu had no children. September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Her Imperial Highness Princess Chichibu (Setsuko秩父宮妃勢津子) of Japan (jp: chichibu no miya setsuko shinnō-hi), was born Matsudaira Setsuko, (b. ... September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Matsudaira clan (松平氏 matsudaira-shi) is the clan into which Tokugawa Ieyasu was born. ... The Tokugawa shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family until 1868. ... Daimyo Matsudaira Katamori visits the residence of a retainer. ... Monument to the Byakkotai Samurai Aizu ) is a former feudal domain (Han), part of the modern-day Japanese prefecture of Fukushima, formerly a part of Mutsu province. ... A viscount is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl (in Britain) or a count (his continental equivalent). ... The kazoku (華族, lit. ...

Military career

Prince Chichibu received his commission as a second lieutenant in the infantry in October 1922 and was assigned to the First Imperial Guard Division. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1925 and became a captain in 1930. He received a promotion to the rank of major and assigned to command the Third Infantry Regiment stationed at Hirosaki in August 1935. He was subsequently posted to Army General Staff at Tokyo in December 1936; appointed battalion commander of Thirty-First Infantry Regiment in August 1937; promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1938; and finally to colonel in August 1939. The prince retired from active duty after being diagnosed with tuberculosis in June 1940. He spent most of World War II convalescing at a villa in Gotemba, Shizuoka prefecture, on the eastern foot of Mount Fuji. 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system, lymphatic system, circulatory system, genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Gotemba city, Shizuoka ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, is on the eastern foot of Mount Fuji. ... Mount Fuji Mount Fuji , IPA: ) is the highest mountain in Japan. ...

Prince Chichibu was implicated, but never charged, in the abortive February 26 Incident. How much of a role he actually played in that event remains unclear. This coup was an attempt by some 1,400 mid-level army officers from the Kodoha (Imperial Way Faction) to seize control of central Tokyo, overthrow the civilian government, and prepare the country for immediate war with the Soviet Union. While the Japanese Imperial Army was highly factionalized in the 1930s and tried to use imperial princes as political pawns, there is little evidence that directly links the Prince to the organizers of the February 26 rebellion but it is clear that he was sympathetic to them. His sympathy to the Kodoha was well known as soon as 1932 when, after the assassination of prime minister Tsuyochi Inukai, he was reassigned, on the order of Hirohito, from Tokyo to a regional command in Hirosaki following many violent arguments with his brother about the suspension of the constitution and the implementation of direct imperial rule. The February 26 Incident (二・二六事件 Ni-niroku jiken) was an uprising against the Japanese government that took place in 1936. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Imperial Japanese Army (大日本帝国陸軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun) was in existence from the Meiji Reformation to the end of World War II. It was created to replace the traditional Japanese samurai with a modern Western-style conscript army. ...

After the coup attempt, the prince and his wife were sent on a European tour which took several months. They represented Japan at the May 1937 coronation of Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Westminster Abbey and subsequently visited Sweden and the Netherlands as the guests of King Gustav V and Queen Wilhelmina, respectively. This tour ended with the visit of Nuremberg by the prince alone. There he participated to Nazi celebrations and met Hitler, with whom he tried to boost relations. At Nuremberg castle, Hitler launched a scathing attack against Stalin, after which the prince privately said to his aide-de-camp Homma : "Hitler is an actor, it will be difficult to trust him." Nevertheless he remained convinced that the future of Japan was linked to Germany; and in 1938 and 1939, he had many quarrels with the Emperor about the opportunity to join a military alliance against Great Britain and the United States. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The coronation of Empress Farah, of Iran in 1967. ... George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor) (14 December 1895 - 6 February 1952) became the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Emperor of India, upon the unexpected abdication of his brother, Edward VIII. He reigned from 11 December 1936 until his death. ... Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite; later Queen Elizabeth; 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the Queen Consort of King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952. ... The Abbeys western façade The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to as Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral (and indeed often considered one), in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ... Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf) (June 16, 1858 – October 29, 1950) was King of Sweden from 1907 until his death. ... For other uses, see Wilhelmina (disambiguation). ... Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვი&#4314...

During the war, Yasuhito was implicated in many operations and was sent to Manchukuo before the Nomonhan incident and to Nanking after the rape. According to authors Peggy and Sterling Seagrave, the Prince led, from 1939 to 1945, the Golden Lily operation by which Japan stole the treasures of the invaded countries. However, his implication in Golden lily probably ended in 1940 as, that year, he fell ill of pulmonary tuberculosis and never really recovered. Manchukuo (1932 to 1945) (Simplified Chinese: 满洲国; Traditional Chinese: 滿洲國; Pinyin: MÇŽnzhōu Guó Kanji: 満州国) was a former country in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia under the leadership of the Emperor Puyi, the last emperor of Qing Dynasty. ... Nanjing (南京, Pinyin: Nánjīng, Wade-Giles: Nan-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Nanking, formerly Jinling 金陵, Jiangning 江宁, and Tianjing 天京) is the central city of downstream Yangtze Basin and is a renowned historical and cultural city. ... Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...

Prince Chichibu died at Kugenuma on 4 January 1953. His remains were cremated and the ashes buried at Toshimagaoka Cemetery, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on 12 January 1953. January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Location of Bunkyo-ku in Tokyo. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

External links

• Kunaicho | Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Chichibu