Hasebe, Shōgo /長谷部照俉; September 28 , 1881 - April 29, 1953/ was born in Saitama Prefecture. His grandfather, Hasebe Jushichi was a swordsmith living in Honjo Town, Kodama County , Saitama Prefecture (present-day Honjo City). However, with the Meiji Restoration, the sword ban was issued and demand for swords disappeared, so he closed his business and, together with his only daughter Han (his biological mother) and his adopted father Mansaku (the Sakamoto family), started a sericulture business. Terutaka was born as the eldest son of a sericulture family. He attended the Tokyo Army Cadet School and the Central Army Cadet School, and graduated from the Army Academy (15th class) in November 1903. In March of the following year, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry and assigned to the 2nd Infantry Regiment. In November 1910, he graduated from the Army War College (22nd class). In December 1911, he was promoted to infantry captain and became the company commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment. He served as an instructor at the Army Corps, and in March 1913, he graduated from the Russian Language Department of the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages as an Army commissioned student. In December of the same year, he went to Russia to study, and in September 1914, he enlisted in the Russian Army. In April 1917, he was transferred to the General Staff, and in June 1918, he was promoted to infantry major. He served as a staff officer in the Urashima Expeditionary Army and was deployed to Siberia until March 1919. In May 1920, he was appointed battalion commander of the 41st Infantry Regiment , and in August 1922, he was promoted to infantry lieutenant colonel and became a staff officer of the 5th Division . After serving as a staff officer in the China Garrison Army , he served at Kyoto Imperial University in August 1925 as an assigned officer in the 16th Division Headquarters. In March 1926, he was promoted to infantry colonel. In May 1927, he was appointed commander of the 37th Infantry Regiment. In August 1931, he was promoted to major general and became commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and was deployed to the Manchurian Incident. In March 1934, he was placed on standby and, in the same month, transferred to the reserve forces.
He later became a consultant for the South Manchuria Railway. In 1945 he became a prisoner of war in Soviet Union. In 1953 he died in a prisoner of war camp. He is buried in Tama Cemetery.
Major Major General Shogo Hasebe is wearing three Imperial Russian order for Non-Christians with swords https://asiamedals.info/forums/imperial-russian-orders-for-non-christians.651/.