caption laterwork branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
japanese admiral count kabayama sukenori governor-general of taiwan privy council home minister education minister empire of japan tokyo , japan 08 february 1922 kagoshima , satsuma domain japan empire of japan order of the rising sun -lrb- 1st class -rrb- anglo-satsuma the yalu obattle of weihaiwei . war boshin war first sino-japanese war obattle of december 9 , 1837 major general , admiral kabayama sukenori.jpg kabayama sukenori
 count kabayama sukenori
kabayama sukenori

count was a japanese samurai military leader and statesman .
he was a general in the imperial japanese army and an admiral in the imperial japanese navy .
he later became the first japanese governor-general of taiwan during the island 's period as a japanese colony .
he is also sometimes referred to as kabayama motonori .
