Yoshitoshi Tokugawa (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant General Baron Yoshitoshi Tokugawa was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and one of the pioneers of military aviation in Japan. Tokugawa Yoshitoshi was the son of Count Tokugawa Atsumori (1856-1924) (head of the Shimizu branch of the Tokugawa clan). He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1903, after having specialized in military engineering. In 1909, Tokugawa was sent as a military attache to France, specifically to study aeronautical engineering and military applications for the use of aircraft in combat. He purchased a Farman MF.7 biplane, which he shipped back to Japan. On 19 December 1910, Tokugawa flew Japan's first successful powered aircraft flight at Yoyogi Parade Ground where Tokyo's Yoyogi Park is now located, only seven years after the Wright Brothers flight in the United States. On April 5, 1911, Tokugawa piloted the inaugural flight at Japan's first permanent airfield in Tokorozawa.