Dewa Shigetō
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Baron Dewa Shigetō was a Japanese admiral in the early days of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Dewa Shigeto
Byakkotai
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The Byakkotai was a group of around 305 young teenage samurai of the Aizu Domain, who fought in the Boshin War on the side of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Dewa Shigetō
…the Imperial Japanese Navy. Dewa was born as the son of a samurai of the Aizu domain (present day Fukushima prefecture). As a youth, he enlisted in the Byakkotai, a reserve unit of the Aizu domain's official military. The Byakkotai was called into action, and Dewa served at the Battle of Aizu in the Boshin War…
Statue of Byakkotai warriors at Iimori Hill, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Pompeii column from Benito Mussolini currently erected on Iimoriyama
Memorial on Iimori Mountain.
Tablets with the names of Byakkotai members who committed suicide.