Arao Sei

Japanese: 荒尾精 - あらお・せい

Year of death: October 30, 1896 (Meiji 29)
Year of birth: June 25, 1859 (July 24, 1859)
An army officer during the Meiji period. The eldest son of Arao Yoshizumi, a samurai of the Owari (Nagoya) clan. He was interested in China from his youth. He graduated from the Army Training Corps and the Doshikan Academy. In 1886 (Meiji 19), he was sent to China by the General Staff Headquarters for about three years to investigate the internal situation. Based in Hankou (Wuhan), he engaged in intelligence activities with continental ronin, and advocated the promotion of trade between the two countries under the slogan of a Japan-China alliance. In order to train personnel capable of trade work, he established the Sino-Japanese Trade Research Institute in Shanghai in 1890, and traveled to China with about 150 research students from Japan. About half of the graduates worked as army interpreters and intelligence officers during the Sino-Japanese War. In the same year, he was promoted to captain. <References> Inoue Masaji, "Giant Arao Sei," and "The Biography of East Asian Pioneers" edited by the Black Dragon Society, Vol. 2

(Yoshiteru Yamamura)

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没年：明治29.10.30(1896)
生年：安政6.6.25(1859.7.24)
明治期の陸軍軍人。尾張(名古屋)藩士荒尾義済の長男。青年期から清国に関心を抱く。陸軍教導団,同士官学校卒。明治19(1886)年参謀本部から約3年,内情調査のため清国に派遣。漢口(武漢市)を拠点に大陸浪人らと共に諜報活動にたずさわり,日清提携をスローガンに,両国の貿易振興を主張。貿易業務ができる人材養成のため,23年日清貿易研究所を上海に設立,日本から研究生約150名を率いて渡清する。卒業生の約半数は日清戦争時に陸軍の通訳,諜報員として活動した。同年,大尉に進む。<参考文献>井上雅二『巨人荒尾精』,黒竜会編『東亜先覚志士記伝』下

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