Hata Shunroku

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Hata Shunroku was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a major leadership role in Japan’s military campaigns during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, later convicted as a war criminal.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Imperial Japanese Army general
Japanese military leader
convicted war criminal
human
allegiance Empire of Japan
awardReceived Order of the Golden Kite
Order of the Rising Sun
Order of the Sacred Treasure
birthDate 1879-07-26
conflict Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II
convictedBy International Military Tribunal for the Far East
convictedOf war crimes
countryOfCitizenship Japan
deathDate 1962-05-10
educatedAt Army War College (Japan)
Imperial Japanese Army Academy
era Shōwa period
event paroled from prison in the 1950s
gender male
hasHonorificTitle Gensui Rikugun Taishō (元帥陸軍大将)
languageOfWorkOrName Japanese
memberOf Imperial Japanese Army General Staff
militaryBranch Imperial Japanese Army
militaryRank Field Marshal
Gensui (元帥)
name Hata Shunroku
nativeName 畑 俊六
notableFor being one of the highest-ranking Japanese officers tried for war crimes after World War II
high command role in Second Sino-Japanese War
notableWork Leadership of Japanese forces in central China
occupation military officer
participatedIn Japanese invasion of China
Pacific War
placeOfBirth Kōchi Prefecture NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Tokyo
positionHeld Chief of the Army General Staff (Japan)
Commander-in-Chief of the China Expeditionary Army
Inspector-General of Military Education (Japan)
Minister of War of Japan
religion Shinto
residence Tokyo
sentence life imprisonment
serviceEndYear 1945
serviceStartYear 1901
wasImprisoned Sugamo Prison

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