Yuji Fujinawa

General Yuji Fujinawa (藤縄祐爾, Fujinawa Yūji, born 22 September 1941) was the Chairman of the Joint Staff Council of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. A lifelong career military officer, he began as an infantry officer. He was named Chief-of-Staff of the Ground Self-Defense Force in July 1997, and became Chairman of the Joint Staff Council in March 1999, his term ending in March 2001.

External links

Chairman, Joint Staff Council (English) at the Wayback Machine (archived October 24, 2004)

Military offices
Preceded by Nobutoshi Watanabe	Chief of Staff Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 1997-1999	Succeeded by Tsuneo Isojima

Chiefs of Staff, Joint Staff, Japan Self-Defense Forces

Chairmen, Joint Staff Council (1954-2006)	Hayashi Sugie Amano Muta Itaya Kinugasa Nakamura Shirakawa Sameshima Kurisu Takashina Takeda Yata Murai Watanabe Mori Ishii Terashima Sakuma Nishimoto Sugiyama Natsukawa Fujinawa Takegochi Ishikawa Masaki

Chiefs of Staff, Joint Staff (2006-)	Masaki Saito Oriki Iwasaki Kawano

Chiefs of Staff of the postwar Japan Ground Forces

Superintendent-General, National Police Reserve (1950-1952)	Hayashi

Chief of the 1st Staff, National Safety Agency (1952-1954)	Hayashi

Chiefs of Staff, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (1954-)	Tsutsui Sugiyama Sugita Omori Amano Yoshie Yamada Kinugasa Nakamura Magari Miyoshi Kurisu Takashina Nagano Suzuki Murai Watanabe Nakamura Ishii Terashima Shima Nishimoto Tomizawa Watanabe Fujinawa Isojima Takatani Masaki Mori Oriki Hibako Kimizuka Iwata

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