Sadao Araki

Baron
Sadao Araki
Baron Sadao Araki
荒木貞夫
Minister of Education
	In office; 26 May 1938 – 30 August 1939
Prime Minister	Fumimaro Konoe; Kiichirō Hiranuma;
Preceded by	Kōichi Kido
Succeeded by	Kakichi Kawarada
Minister of the Army
	In office; 13 December 1931 – 23 January 1934
Prime Minister	Tsuyoshi Inukai; Makoto Saitō;
Preceded by	Jirō Minami
Succeeded by	Senjūrō Hayashi
Member of the Supreme War Council
	In office; 23 January 1934 – 6 March 1936
Monarch	Hirohito
Personal details
Born	26 May 1877; Komae, Tokyo, Japan
Died	2 November 1966 (aged 89); Totsukawa, Nara, Japan
Resting place	Tama Cemetery
Awards	Order of the Sacred Treasures (1st class); Order of the Golden Kite (2nd class); Order of the Rising Sun (1st class);
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1898–1936
Rank	General
Commands	6th Division
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War; Siberian Intervention;

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Baron Sadao Araki (荒木貞夫, Araki Sadao; May 26, 1877 – November 2, 1966) was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. As one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the Empire of Japan, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Imperial Japanese Army and served as Minister of War under Prime Minister Inukai. He later served as Minister of Education during the Konoe and Hiranuma administrations.

After World War II, he was convicted of war crimes and given a life sentence but was released in 1955.