Koichi Fujii
| Fujii Kōichi | |
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| Born |
September 24, 1858 Okayama, Okayama, Japan |
| Died | July 9, 1926 (aged 67) |
| Allegiance |
 Empire of Japan
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| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Years of service | 1883 - 1920 |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Battles/wars |
First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War |
Fujii Kōichi (藤井較一?, 24 September 1858 – 9 July 1926) was an admiral in the early Imperial Japanese Navy.
Fujii was born as the eldest son of a samurai of the Okayama Domain in the present day city of Okayama. He attended the 7th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, graduating 7th out of 30 cadets. One of his classmates was the future Prime Minister Kato Tomosaburo. He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in November 1883, and promoted to lieutenant in December 1886. He served as a junior officer on several vessels of the early Japanese Navy, including the corvette Tsukuba, frigate Fujiyama, ironclad warship Ryūjō, corvette Katsuragi, cruisers Takao and Chiyoda. From April to July 1894, he was a military attaché to Italy.
At the start of the First Sino-Japanese War, Fujii was serving with the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff; however, he was assigned to combat duty on the captured Chinese gunboat Soko, the gunboat Ōshima and the corvette Musashi on which he was promoted to lieutenant commander and appointed executive officer from February 1895. After the war, Fujii was sent to the United Kingdom to supervise the construction of the cruiser Takasago, and was promoted to commander on 1 December 1897. He returned to Japan as executive officer of the new cruiser in August 1898 and was reassigned briefly as executive officer to the Saien, before receiving his first command, the gunboat Chōkai on 1 October 1898. He became captain of the cruiser Suma from June 1899 and was promoted to captain in September of the same year, and was then reassigned to Akitsushima. However, from May to December 1900, he served on the staff of the Governor-General of Taiwan, followed by a brief period in early 1902 as military attaché to Berlin. He returned to the Navy General Staff from February 1901 to October 1903.
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