 Complete the following phrase:  Sawada was the third son of a farmer in what is now the Kamobe neighborhood of the city of Kochi, Kōchi Prefecture. After attending military preparatory schools in Kōchi and Hiroshima, he graduated from the 18th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1905, serving as a junior officer in an artillery regiment. In 1910, he was sent to the Artillery Engineering School, and to the 26th class of the Army War College in 1914. On graduation, he was assigned to the Record and Documentation Bureau of Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, where he was assigned to the task of compiling an official record of the Russo-Japanese War. In January 1918, while still under the General Staff Office, he was assigned to accompany Japanese forces in the 