Background
Naritada Gunji was born in Tokyo, the second son of Karinobu Koda, a retainer of the Sho-gunate, he was adopted by the Gunji family.
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Naritada Gunji
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He entered the Naval Academy (1873).
Career
After being commissioned a first lieutenant, he retired in order to freely defend the Kuriles and Shumushu Island from British and American poachers who were operating in the waters around those islands around 1892. With the object of permanently residing in Shumushu Island, he and 160 men went to the Kuriles on a small ship. In the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), he fought in Manchuria and was captured by the Russians but managed to escape with eighty other men. In World War I, he was sent to Siberia by the Government but was forced to return because of illness.
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1873