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03.06.2009 |  | Akira Muto was born in Japan in 1883. Embarking on a career in the military, he was appointed Head of the Military Affairs Bureau, a position he fulfilled alongside other responsibilities, contributing to making him an important participant in a conspiracy the aim of which was to plan, prepare and carry out wars of aggression.
He was charged with having taken part in wars of aggression against China, the United States, the British Commonwealth... |
03.06.2009 | | Jiro Minami was born in 1874. Embarking on a career in the military, he rose to the rank of General in 1931 and was even appointed Minister of War from April to December of the same year.
Minami did nothing to prevent the incident at Mukden (on 18 September 1931, the Japanese blew up one of their railway lines in China, accusing the Chinese of the crime, in order to gain a pretext to invade Manchuria), despite the fact that he was aware of the... |
03.06.2009 | | Iwane Matsui was born in 1878. A commanding officer in the Japanese army, he rose to the rank of General in 1933.
He was accused of having conspired to wage wars of aggression and of having taken part in such wars.
Matsui retired in 1935, but was recalled to active duty in 1937 and given the command of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, before being appointed Commander in Chief of the army in the central China area. His troops took Nanking o... |
03.06.2009 | | Seishiro Itagaki was born in 1885. He chose a career in the military.
Itagaki was charged with having taken part, from 1931 onwards, when he was Colonel in the Kwantung Army, in the conspiracy aimed at Japan’s forcible takeover of Manchuria.
In the following years, Itagaki became an active advocate of aggressive action, namely against China.
He was appointed Minister of War in May 1938 and under his command, the attacks against China r... |
03.06.2009 | | Shunroku Hata was born in 1879. He was Minister of War from 1939 to July 1940 and was strongly in favour of Japanese domination over East Asia and some areas of Southern Asia.
From March 1941 to November 1944, Hata acted as Commander in Chief of the China Expeditionary Force, thereby contributing to the war of aggression against the latter country.
Wide-scale atrocities were committed during that period by the troops placed under his comman... |
14.09.2008 | | The son of a samurai, Kiichiro Hiranuma was born on 28 September, 1867.
In 1888, he obtained a degree in English at the Imperial University of Tokyo and quickly found a job within the Ministry of Justice, where he gained a reputation of fighting against government corruption. He was appointed Director of the Tokyo High Court and the Prosecutor in the Supreme Court, and Director of the Office of Civil and Criminal Matters. In 1929, he convicte... |
14.09.2008 | | Kenji Dohihara was born on 8 August 1883 in Okayama.
In 1904, he finished his studies at the Academy of the Japanese Imperial Army, before joining the School of Army Personnel from which he graduated in 1912.
Kenji Dohihara was then sent to Beijing as military attaché. His fluency of Mandarin and several Chinese dialects distinguished him for intelligence missions.
Between 1921 and 1922, he participated in the Japanese intervention in... |
14.09.2008 | | Heitaro Kimura was born on 28th September 1888 in Tokyo.
In 1908, he graduated from the Academy of the Japanese Imperial Army as an officer of artillery.
Between 1918 and 1919, he served in the Japanese expedition to Siberia to fight against the Bolshevik army. He was then sent as a military attaché to Germany. He was promoted to Colonel in 1928.
From 1929 to 1931, Heitaro Kimura was the Japanese delegate at the London Conference on D... |
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