Background
Soroku Suzuki was born in 1865 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
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Education
He studied at the Kyododan a military school of the early Meiji Era, and was commissioned a cavalry sublieutenant (1981). He graduated from the Army Staff College after the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
He attached to the Army General Staff and taught at the Cavalry School and the Army Staff College.
Career
He served in the Boxer Uprising as a colonel (1900). In the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) he was with the Army General Staff as a staff officer of the Second Army.
He was appointed Cavalry Super-intendent General, division commander, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Formosa and then in Korea. After becoming a full general, he was appointed chief of the Army General Staff (1926).
Upon being placed on the reserve list (1929), he was nominated president of the Reservists' Association (1930). He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1931.
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