Military attaché

Japanese: 駐在武官 - ちゅうざいぶかん（英語表記）military attaché

This refers to army, navy, and air force attachés and their assistants attached to embassies. In a broad sense, it includes attachés who have studied abroad and are stationed there with special missions, as well as shipbuilding and munitions inspectors. They are usually appointed at the rank of field officer or general, and represent their own country's military while legally investigating the military situation of the host country and have diplomatic privileges. In Japan, the first army attaché was stationed at a legation in Russia in 1874, and before World War II, army and navy attachés were stationed in major countries. Until the end of the war, army attachés were under the control of the General Staff, and navy attachés (attached to embassies) were under the control of the Naval General Staff, and navy attachés (attached to embassies) were under the control of the Naval General Staff, and their duties were to assist the embassy and envoy in military matters. Shipbuilding and munitions inspectors and attachés stationed abroad for study abroad, etc. were under the control of the Ministry of the Army and Navy. Currently in the Self-Defense Forces, the equivalent of an embassy attaché is called a defense attaché, who holds the rank of foreign affairs secretary (counsellor) and is subordinate to the ambassador, but performs the same duties as an embassy attaché and is also treated as a military attaché by other countries.

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Japanese:

大公使館付きの陸・海・空軍武官，同補佐官をいう。広い意味では外国に留学し，特別の任務を与えられて駐在する武官および造船造兵監督官を含む。普通佐官級または将官級が任命され，それぞれ自国の軍を代表するとともに駐在国の軍事事情を合法的に調査し，外交特権をもつ。日本では 1874年に駐ロシア公使館付き陸軍武官をおいたのが最初で，第2次世界大戦前には主要国に陸海軍武官が駐在していた。終戦まで陸軍武官は参謀本部，海軍 (大使館付き) 武官は軍令部の管理下にあり，軍事に関しては大・公使を補佐する任務をもっていた。造船造兵監督官および留学などのための駐在武官は陸・海軍省の管理下にあった。現在自衛隊では大使館付き武官に相当するものを防衛駐在官と呼び，身分は外務書記官 (参事官) で，完全に大使の部下であるが，職務は大使館付き武官と同様のことを行なっており，諸外国も武官として扱っている。

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