What is Yamagata Aritomo?
{{Japanese name|Yamagata}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] |name = Yamagata Aritomo |native_name = 山縣 有朋 |image = Yamagata Aritomo.jpg |office = [[List of Prime Ministers of Japan|3rd]] [[Prime Minister of Japan]] |monarch = [[Emperor Meiji|Meiji]] |term_start = November 8, 1898 |term_end = October 19, 1900 |predecessor = [[Ōkuma Shigenobu]] |successor = [[Itō Hirobumi]] |monarch2 = [[Emperor Meiji|Meiji]] |term_start2 = December 24, 1889 |term_end2 = May 6, 1891 |predecessor2 = [[Sanjō Sanetomi]] <small>(Acting)</small> |successor2 = [[Matsukata Masayoshi]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1838|6|14}} |birth_place = [[Hagi, Yamaguchi|Kawashima]], [[Tokugawa shogunate|Japan]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1922|2|1|1838|6|14}} |death_place = [[Odawara, Kanagawa|Odawara]], [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] |party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] |allegiance = {{flag|Empire of Japan}} |branch={{army|Empire of Japan}} |serviceyears = 1868–1905 |rank = [[Field Marshal]] |battles = [[Boshin War]]<br>[[Satsuma Rebellion]]<br>[[First Sino-Japanese War]]<br>[[Russo-Japanese War]] |awards = [[Order of the Golden Kite]] <small>(1st class)</small><br>[[Order of the Rising Sun]] <small>(1st class with Paulownia Blossoms, Grand Cordon)</small><br>[[Order of the Chrysanthemum]]<br/>[[Order of Merit|Member of the Order of Merit]] (United Kingdom)<br/>[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (United Kingdom) }} {{Nihongo|'''Yamagata Aritomo''' |山縣 有朋||extra=June 14, 1838 – February 1, 1922}} was a [[Field Marshal]] in the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. He was twice [[Prime Minister of Japan]]. Yamagata was the [[wikt:found|found]]er of the Imperial Japanese Army.<ref name=Dickinson23>Frederick R. Dickinson, ''War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 23</ref> == Career == Yamagata was born June 14, 1838, in [[Hagi, Yamaguchi|