Ken Terajima

[5] Terajima attended Wakayama Junior High School as he took a personal admiration of the student uniforms of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, notably the ones of Yonejiro Okamoto and Kichisaburō Nomura, who were enrolled in the Naval Academy as junior high school seniors.

[15] After the war, Terajima travelled to the United Kingdom with Yuriichi Edahara aboard the Kashima and worked as a gunnery officer.

[16] After returning to Japan, at the recommendation of Kenji Ide, who contributed to the introduction of submersibles, he worked in the early submarine corps.

The 1st Southern Expeditionary Corps moved to the South Seas to search for the German Eastern Fleet but they didn't meet the enemy.

Major Tokunosuke Tanii, who was an alumnus of Terajima's junior high school and was in the Marine Corps class, was killed in action.

The deputy commander assisted the captain and managed the Hirado's affairs and achieved good results and received a commendation from the Commander-in-Chief of the Second Fleet, Yamaya Hitoshi.

[21] Emperor Hirohito made a visit to Western Europe when he was the crown prince, and he chose Katori as his flagship and Kashima' as his companion ship.

Terajima served as an instructor at the Naval War College for one year, was promoted to captain in December 1922, and was appointed military attaché to France.

The chief of staff of the Combined Fleet was a position in which a person required sufficient physical strength due to the hard work and was excellent in strategy and combat command ability.

During the training of the Combined Fleet, aircraft belonging to the 1st Air Force under Commander Sankichi Takahashi, the Akagi under Captain Isoroku Yamamoto and Hōshō under Captain Goro Hara were unable to return in time due to sudden weather changes which resulted in an accident in which six people died.

[25] Zengo Yoshida, who was the captain of the Combined Fleet flagship Mutsu at the time, criticized Taniguchi and Terajima.

[28] Takuzo Hanai, a member of the House of Peers, asked Hirohito who should be in charge of supporting the organization of the Army and Navy and the reserves.

At that time, Terajima confirmed the intentions of Gensui Yoshika Inoue and Tōgō Heihachirō under the order of Minister of the Navy Takeshi Takarabe.

[32] In the end, a discussion was held with Kantarō Suzuki, Chief of Naval General Staff, Katō Kanji, Commander-in-Chief of Yokosuka Naval Base, and furthermore with the Army, it was concluded that "The Minister of the Army and Navy is responsible for providing constitutional support for the prerogatives of Article 12 of the Constitution, but the military strength is limited.

[33] In addition, he enacted the Naval Training Air Corps educational guidelines and accepted foreign students from the Turkish Navy.

This business discussion wasn't a sudden one and the movement aimed at expanding the authority of the Naval General Staff can be seen since Yūzaburō Katō and Kakuichi Murakami were navy ministers.

However, the attempts of Hayao Shimamura, Deputy Director Tetsutarō Satō, Gentarō Yamashita, Kanji Katō, and Saburo Horiuchi didn't materialize.

[42] The document overturned the navy's conventional way of thinking about Article 12 of the above-mentioned constitution and stood in the same position as the General Staff.

[47] Inoue's reasons for opposition are broadly divided into three points, and are quoted from "Omoide no ki" written for the class meeting only.

*(1) The Minister of the Navy is in charge of a part of the Commander-in-Chief's affairs, and is responsible for providing assistance (constitutionally) in this regard.

[53][54] After this agreement Terashima told Kumao Harada about behind-the-scenes circumstances such as the movements of Kanji Katō, Kentarō Kaneko, Ōsumi, and Prince Fushimi and that he tried to stop the revision.

Terajima's words were, "Due to certain circumstances, we have had to carry out revisions based on this final draft of the military general office.

The chief of the bureau himself will be criticized for revising the system based on such a stupid naval general draft, so it's a shame.

[59] It is the same movement as the treaty faction general officers such as Hori Teikichi's admission to the reserve, and is part of the so-called Daikaku personnel affairs.

[60] Terashima's departure became a problem in the Diet,[61] and Tasuku Nakazawa, who was suspicious of a series of personnel affairs, asked Katsunoshin Yamanashi about the situation.

Uraga Docks was a company whose main business was shipbuilding, and built 62 ships, including destroyers and Seikan Ferry during the seven years of President Terajima.