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Ryunosuke Okamoto was born in Edo (now Tokyo, Japan). His original family name was Suwa.
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Ryunosuke Okamoto served in the army of the Imperial Government. He was commissioned a captain and took part in the expedition against the rebels led by Takamori Saigo (1877). When soldiers in the Takebashi Barracks in Tokyo rioted out of dissatisfaction with the rewards for exploits in the Saigo civil war he was mistaken as one of the riot leaders and was deprived of his rank and position. He later became an adviser of the Korean Army and royal household. In 1895 he was involved in the assassination of the Korean Empress Bin and was imprisoned at Hiroshima. Exonerated the following year, he went to Shanghai (1911) when the Chinese revolution broke out. Died there (1912).
