Koreshige Inuzuka
| Koreshige Inuzuka | |
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Captain Koreshige Inuzuka, taken before 1945
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| Born |
July 11, 1890 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | February 19, 1965 (aged 74) |
| Allegiance |
 Empire of Japan
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| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Years of service | 1912 - 1945 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars |
World War I Second Sino-Japanese War World War II |
Captain Koreshige Inuzuka (犬塚惟重 Inuzuka Koreshige, 11 July 1890 – 19 February 1965) was the head of the Japanese Imperial Navy's Advisory Bureau on Jewish Affairs from March 1939 until April 1942. Unlike his Imperial Japanese Army counterpart, Colonel Yasue Norihiro, he held to an anti-Semitic ideology, believing strongly in the ; but these beliefs led him to think that attracting Jews to settle in Japanese-controlled Asia was in the Empire of Japan's best interests.
Inuzuka was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of a former samurai retainer of Saga Domain. His official residency was in Saga Prefecture. A graduate of a middle school affiliated with Waseda University, he entered military service and graduated from the 39th class of the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy in 1912. He went on to the Navy Staff College and served on a number of vessels, including the Hizen, cruisers Kasuga, Yakumo, Kitakami, Kiso, and Nisshin.
During World War I, Inuzuka was stationed in the Mediterranean Sea, with the Japanese expeditionary force sent to Malta as part of Japan’s contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. After the war, he was stationed off the coast of Vladivostok during the Siberian Intervention to aid the White Russians against the Bolshevik Red Army. It was there that he first heard of and read the , a powerful anti-Semitic document detailing a Jewish worldwide conspiracy. The document was forged and distributed by Russian General Gregorii Semenov, a leader of the White forces.
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