Nogi
MARESUKE, COUNT, Japanese soldier; born at Hagi, Choshin , in NOGUCHI 476 NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER 1849. He fought in the civil war of 1877 and distinguished himself at Kinchow in the China-Japanese war. During the war with Russia he commanded a division at first, and organized the attack on Port Arthur, which resulted in its seizure by the 3d Army after numerous bloody battles on its slopes. He has also been credited with the victory over the Russian forces at Mukden, which yielded when Nogi came upon them in the rear. He was an old-fashioned type of Japanese statesman and on the death of the emperor he and his wife committed hara-kiri. He died in 1912.