Tsuneyoshi Takeda says also Prince Takeda was the son of the prince Takeda Tsunehisa and from the princess Tsune-No-miya Masako, it was born the March 3rd 1909 with Tōkyō. He was the cousin of Hirohito.

Military career

Prince Takeda was graduate in 1930 of the Military academy. He reached the rank of major in August 1940. Three years later, it was promoted Lieutenant-colonel. It was distinguished for its tactics deployed at the time of the Bataille of Guadalcanal. End of 1944 until the stop of the war, it belonged to the general headquarter of the Armée with Guandong, which brought it inter alia visiting the installations of the Unité 731.

According to the authors Peggy and Sterling Seagrave, Takeda was the project superintendent, with the prince Yasuhito Chichibu, of the Lys operation of gold by which the mode Shōwa plundered the richnesses of the countries conquered and gathered in the Sphère of Co-prosperity of large Eastern Asia.

Like all the family members imperial, the prince was exonerated from criminal continuations in front of the Tribunal of Tōkyō by Douglas MacArthur.

Functions after the war

The prince also had the president's function of the Steering Committee of the Olympic Games of summer of 1964 with Tokyo and of the Winter Olympics of 1972 with Sapporo. Between 1967 and 1981, it sat at CIO.

He died the May 12th 1992 of a Heart attack.