Background
Naokuma Nakayama was born in 1880 in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Born to the family of retainer of the Higo Clan.
Naokuma Nakayama was born in 1880 in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Born to the family of retainer of the Higo Clan.
Graduated from the Seiseiko Middle School in Kumamoto. Learned Chinese at the Chenhwa school in Peking, 1903.
Worked as customs official.
Worked for the Japanese language newspaper Hokushi Nichinichi in Tientsin. After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, he became a secret agent of the Japanese Army.