Ponce

Japanese: ポンセ

A Filipino reform and revolutionary. Born into a wealthy family in Paliwag, Bulacan, central Luzon, he studied medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid in Spain in 1887. The Philippine reform movement, known as the Propaganda Movement, which began in the early 1880s under Spanish rule in the Philippines, was also carried out in Spain among students and refugees, and Ponce joined it. In 1889, he was involved in the launch of Solidaridad (Mutual Aid), the organ of the movement in Spain, and supported the paper until its cessation in 1895 as the right-hand man of his fellow countryman Del Pilar, who became its editor-in-chief midway through the period. After losing Del Pilar in 1896, he moved to Hong Kong, where he supported the Philippine Revolution that had just broken out, forming the Revolutionary Promotion Society with refugees, and in June 1898, he was sent to Japan to procure weapons and ammunition at the request of the revolutionary government led by Aguinaldo. Through the introduction of Sun Yat-sen, who was in exile in Japan, he gained the cooperation of Miyazaki Toten and Inukai Tsuyoshi, and received arms from the Army General Staff, which he loaded onto the Nunobiki Maru and set sail from Nagasaki port, but it sank in a typhoon off the coast of Shanghai and never reached the hands of the revolutionary forces. After the defeat of the revolutionary forces and the beginning of American rule, he served as a member of the Philippine Congress from 1910 to 1912.

Ponce

A port city on the south coast of Puerto Rico. It is the island's second largest city and the center of the southern part of the island. Formerly known as a sugar shipping port, it now serves as a transportation center in the Caribbean. The center, which retains vestiges of the Spanish colonial era, has been restored and is now a pedestrian area. Population: 185,276 (2005).

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Japanese:

フィリピンの改革運動家，革命運動家。ルソン島中部のブラカン州パリワグの裕福な家庭に生まれ，1887年スペインのマドリード中央大学に留学し医学を学んだ。1880年代初頭スペイン支配下のフィリピンで開始されたプロパガンダ運動と呼ばれるフィリピン改革運動は，スペインでも留学生や亡命者の間で展開されており，ポンセもこれに加わった。1889年スペインでの運動の機関紙《ソリダリダッド（相互扶助）》の創刊に携わり，途中から編集長になった同郷のデル・ピラールの右腕として，1895年の終刊まで同紙を支えた。1896年デル・ピラールを失うと香港に移り，折しも勃発したフィリピン革命を支援，亡命者とともに革命期成会を結成し，1898年６月アギナルドの率いる革命政府の要請で武器，弾薬を調達するため日本に派遣された。日本亡命中の孫文の紹介で宮崎滔天や犬養毅らの協力を得，陸軍参謀本部から武器の払下げを受け，これを布引丸に積載し長崎港を出港させたが，上海沖で台風のため沈没，革命軍の手には届かなかった。革命軍の敗北で米国の統治が始まると，1910年−1912年フィリピン議会議員を務めた。