Kazushige Ugaki

Kazushige Ugaki (宇垣 一成 Ugaki Kazushige; August 21 1868, Okayama prefecture, Japan - 30 April, 1956, Tokyo) was a Japanese general. In 1927 he was Governor-General of Korea.

He graduated from the Military Academy, 1891. General, 1925. War Minister four times. Governor-General of Korea. Premier-designate after fall of Hirota Cabinet, February 1937, but could not form a Cabinet due to difficulties with Army. Foreign Minister (first Konoye Cabinet), May 1938; resigned, September 1938.

He led the Toseiha (Control Group) faction, along with Gen Sugiyama, Koiso Kuniaki, Yoshijiro Umezu, Tetsuzan Nagata and Hideki Tojo, attempting to represent the more conservative and moderate Army officers. It was the politically moderate faction, as against the radical group Kodaha (Imperial Benevolent Rule or Action Group), led by Sadao Araki. Some officers under General Ugaki revitalized the Toseiha group , to oppose them; they looked to Hitler's Germany as the inspiration for the kind of controlled state they sought. The ideological roots of both groups were in the Double Leaf Society, an older think-tank in 1920s period based on ultranationalism and the fanatical side of samurai tradition.

The control faction scored a victory in January 1934 when General Araki was forced to step down, after the excesses of the Kwantung Army, and his replacement was one of their own, General Senjuro Hayashi. The struggle between the two groups (Toseiha and Kodaha) went on quietly throughout the government; and the war in North China would continue apace until February of 1936.

Later the factions united in the Kodoha (Imperial Way) right-wing nationalist party.

Periods in Office:	1927 1931 to 1942
Predeced By:	Viscount Saito Makoto Viscount Saito Makoto
Succeeded By:	General Hanzo Yamanashi General Jiro Minami
Birth:	June 1868
Death:	April 1956

|- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align:center;"

|style="width:30%;" rowspan="1"|Preceded by

Viscount Makoto Saito of Korea

| style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"| Japanese Governor-General in Korea
1931-1936

| style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"| Succeeded by

Jiro Minami

|- |}

Reference

• Republic of Korea