The Imperial Japanese Navy was the first to assemble a large number of carriers into a single task force, known as Kido Butai.

With the start of the Pacific War with the attack on Pearl Harbor carried out by the Combined Fleet's Kido Butai, the Combined Fleet became almost synonymous with the Imperial Japanese Navy.

was a Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II and one time commander of the Kido Butai ( the carrier strike force ).

Examples are: Sheet No. 94069 has information on " KASUGA MARU "-this being hand-written ( Kasuga Maru was later converted to CVE Taiyo ); Sheet No. 94630 is associated with IJN oiler Shiriya ( detailed to the Midway Neutralization Force, with destroyers Ushio and Sazanami, not the Kido Butai ); and finally for Sheet No. 94644 there is another hand-written remark " FAF using Akagi xtmr " ( First Air Fleet using Akagis transmitter ).

Just prior to the sortie of Akagi and Kido Butai for the Battle of Midway, he yielded his command to Captain Taijiro Aoki.

Furthermore, Stinnett makes numerous and contradictory claims of the number of messages originated by the Kido Butai, attributing to it messages from shore stations, Yamamoto's flagship ( which was not accompanying the task force ), deception measures, and traffic from before the task force even sailed.

Moreover, he finds " not a single one " originating from the Kido Butai after it sortied 26 November.

Okita appears during a flashback in Kido Shinsengumi: Moeyo Ken ( which features Okita's fictional daughter Kaoru as one of the three main characters of the series.

* Shinji Kido or Kamen Rider Ryuki ( character ), the main character in the Kamen Rider Ryuki tokusatsu series

Kido also claimed after the war that Emperor Hirohito was never aware of the plans to attack Pearl Harbor until after the attack occurred.

The mission was named after and headed by Iwakura Tomomi in the role of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador, assisted by four vice-ambassadors, three of whom ( Ōkubo Toshimichi, Kido Takayoshi, and Itō Hirobumi ) were also ministers in the Japanese government.

The civilian government, especially Kōichi Kido and Fumimaro Konoe also did not favor Koiso, due to Koiso's previous involvement with the ultranationalist Sakura Kai and its attempted coup d ' état against the government in 1931 ( i. e. the " March Incident ").

Kido, referred to by his initial name Katsura Kogorō, is among the historical personalities present in the manga and anime Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki, as well as its OAV adaptation Tsuiokuhen ( Trust & Betrayal ).

Ōmura ideas for modernizing Japan's military were largely implemented after his death by his followers such as Yamagata Aritomo, Kido Takayoshi, and Yamada Akiyoshi.

Historically, the oligarchy that came into power after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 had a strong representation from the Chōshū province, as Itō Hirobumi, Yamagata Aritomo, and Kido Kōin were from there.

Matsuda played at the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's doubles with Tadashi Ohtsuka, and were defeated in the third round by the eventual champions Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan, of Indonesia, 22-20, 21-19.

Ohtsuka played at the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's doubles with Keita Masuda, and were defeated in the third round by the eventual champions Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan, of Indonesia, 22-20, 21-19.

Through the mediation of Sakamoto Ryōma of Tosa Domain ( present day Kochi Prefecture ), Satsuma military leaders Saigō Takamori and Okubo Toshimichi were brought together with Katsura Kogorō ( Kido Takayoshi ) of Chōshū.

However, none of the lengthy interrogations of Kido were ever entered into direct evidence, and in his testimony as well as the parts of the diary released to the public, he never quoted the Emperor's exact words.

He was a student of Yoshida Shōin at the Shōka Sonjuku and later joined the Sonnō jōi movement (" to revere the Emperor and expel the barbarians "), together with Kido Takayoshi.

After 1858, Kido was based at the domain's Edo residence, where he served as liaison between the domain bureaucracy and radical elements among the young, lower-echelon Chōshū samurai who supported the Sonnō jōi movement.

Kido Takayoshi who was at the Ikedaya claimed many years later that they had only met to discuss how to rescue Furukata from the Shinsengumi.

During his journey, after arriving at Birmingham on 1 November 1872 and staying at the Queen's Hotel in Room No. 10, Kido notes two days later in his diary ( Vol.

The importance of the imperial regalia to Japan is evident also from the declarations made by Emperor Showa to Koichi Kido on 25 and 31 July 1945 at the end of World War II, when he ordered the keeper of the privy seal to protect them " at all costs ".

The failures and their prolonged stay became useless at this point, which put Okubo and Kido on bad terms politically.

During his investigations of these incidents, Shinji Kido – an intern at the online news service ORE Journal – discovers one of the Advent Card decks at an apartment where every reflective surface has been covered by newspaper.

Kido was also one of the more cautious advisors to the emperor at the beginning of World War II ( because he feared the powers of western allies ), and one of the chief advocates of peace at the end ( trying to ingratiate himself with the conquerors ).

Four years later, at the end of the war, Kido is generally credited with convincing the government to accept the Potsdam Declaration and surrender.

Kido at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East | Tokyo Tribunal, 1947

In 1951, as the Occupation of Japan was ending, Kido sent a message to the emperor, advising him as he had advised three years earlier, to accept responsibility for the defeat and abdicate, at the end of the American Occupation.

For a number of years he worked at the Shochiku film company under Shiro Kido as a property manager and later as an assistant director.

* 1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician ( d. 1877 )

* May 26 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese statesman ( b. 1833 )

The Chōshū leader Kido Takayoshi had favored a constitutional form of government since before 1874, and several proposals for constitutional guarantees had been drafted.

" Yuri's language was moderated by his colleague Fukuoka Takachika in February to be " less alarming ," and Kido Takayoshi prepared the final form of the Oath, employing " language broad enough to embrace both readings.

In 1928, Shiro Kido, the head of the Shochiku studio, decided that the company was to concentrate on making short comedy " no star " films without star actors.

His subsequent films of 1930 impressed Shiro Kido enough to invite him on a trip to a hot spring.

However, both Emperor Hirohito and the Lord Privy Seal, Kido Koichi, believed that it would be inappropriate for a member of the Imperial Family to serve in that position, as he could be blamed for anything which went wrong in the war.

In 1866, he met with Saigō Takamori and Chōshū Domain's Kido Takayoshi to form the secret Satcho Alliance to overthrow the Tokugawa.

The triumvirate of Ōkubo, Saigō and Kido formed a provisional government.

, also referred as Kido Kōin was a Japanese statesman during the Late Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji Restoration.

Kido was born in Hagi, in Chōshū Domain ( present-day Yamaguchi prefecture ) as the latest son of, a samurai physician.

After radical elements under Takasugi Shinsaku gained control of Chōshū politics, Kido was instrumental in establishing the Satchō Alliance which proved to be critical in the Boshin War and the subsequent Meiji Restoration.

Following the overthrow of the Tokugawa bakufu, Kido claimed a large role in the establishment of the new Meiji government.

Kido lost his dominant position in the Meiji oligarchy to Ōkubo Toshimichi, and resigned from government in protest of the Taiwan Expedition of 1874, which he had strenuously opposed.

Following the Osaka Conference of 1875, Kido agreed to return to the government, and became chairman of the Assembly of Prefectural Governors that the Ōsaka Conference had created.

* Kido, Takayoshi.

The Diary of Kido Takayoshi ( Sidney DeVere Brown and Akiko Hirota, translators ), Vol.

* Yomiuri Shimbun: Less than 30 % of primary school students in Japan know historical significance of Kido, 2008.