The first person of Aizu background to attain the rank of admiral was Hidematsu Tsunoda, and Matsudaira Morio the son of the former Aizu lord Matsudaira Katamori as a rear admiral. On the occasion of the Siemens-Vickers Navy Armament Scandal, as Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry he concentrated his efforts on the cleanup of corruption from the Navy. This eventually led to the fall of Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyōe's cabinet in March 1914. Dewa retired from active service in 1925. In his later years, Dewa was involved with the construction of memorials to the casualties of the Battle of Aizu. His grave is at the Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo. Honors From the article in the Japanese Wikipedia Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th Class Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1 April 1906) Order of the Golden Kite, 2nd Class (1 April 1906) Baron (21 September 1907) Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers (27 January 1930; posthumous) Grand Cordon of the Order of the Plum Blossoms of the Korean Empire References Books Notes External links 1856 births 1930 deaths Imperial Japanese Navy admirals Samurai Kazoku People of the Boshin War Japanese military personnel of the First Sino-Japanese War Japanese military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War People of Meiji-period Japan People from Aizu Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun Imperial Japanese Naval Academy alumni