Draft:Taizo Terashima
General Taizo Terashima (寺島 泰三) is a former Japanese career military officer who served in multiple senior posts in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) including Chief of Staff, Ground Self-Defense Force and Chairman of the Joint Staff Council. After his retirement Terashima became chairman of the Japan Friendship Association, a veterans association and chairman of the Society to Respond to Heroic Spirits which commerates Japanese war dead. He was also a member of Nippon Kaigi, a Japanese Far-Right nationalist political lobbying group.
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| Native name | 寺島 泰三 |
| Born | March 1933 (age 91) Fukushima Prefecture, Japan |
| Allegiance |  Japan |
| Service/ |  Japan Ground Self-Defense Force |
| Years of service | 1956-1991 |
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