Prince Kitashirakawa was posthumously promoted to the rank of Major of Artillery. His Highness was born the first and only son of His Imperial Highness Prince Narihisa Kitashirakawa, who was killed in a motor car accident on the outskirts of Paris in 1923.
His Imperial Highness Prince Yoshihisa Kitashirakawa, grandfather of Prince Nagahisa, succumbed to illness while commanding a Japanese punitive expedition to Formosa in 1895 following Japan's acquisition of the southern island as a resi Treaty of Shimonoseki the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95.
The late Prince appointed Lieutenant of Artillery on October 1931 after graduating from the Central Military Cadet School and the Mil
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