Third Army (Japan)
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The Japanese 3rd Army was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army based in Manchukuo as a garrison force under the overall command of the Kwantung Army during World War II, but its history dates to the Russo-Japanese War.
IJA 3rd Army at Port Arthur, 1904
Nogi Maresuke
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Count Nogi Maresuke , also known as Kiten, Count Nogi, was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan. He was one of the commanders during the 1894 capture of Port Arthur from China and a prominent figure in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, as commander of the forces which captured Port Arthur from the Russians.
Nogi standing before his house in Nogizaka, Tokyo, shortly before his suicide in 1912
Nogi standing in the center facing a captured Russian gun crew outside Port Arthur on January 2, 1905
Nogi is seated in the center next to Russian general Anatoly Stessel after Russian forces surrendered at Port Arthur on January 2, 1905.
Room in which Nogi Maresuke committed suicide with his wife