Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa
Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa became a soldier and went to Germany to learn more about military training. He went back to Japan in 1887. He became a general and was put in charge of the 4th Division as a lieutenant general in 1893. The First Sino-Japanese War started in 1894 and he joined the Japanese attack on Taiwan. However, he caught a disease called malaria and died near Tainan. There were some rumors that he was killed by guerrillas in Taiwan.. Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa was the first person from Japan's royal family to die in a war outside Japan. He died during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. After his death, he was given a special status as a kami in the State Shinto religion. Many Shinto shrines built in Taiwan during Japan's rule had his shrine, and he was also enshrined in Yasukuni Jinja..