Itagaki Seishirō

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Itagaki Seishirō was a Japanese general and political figure who played a leading role in Japan’s militarist expansion in East Asia before and during World War II, later executed as a convicted war criminal.

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Imperial Japanese Army general
Japanese general
human
politician
war criminal
allegiance Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan
areaOfActivity East Asia
Korean Peninsula
surface form: Korea

Manchuria
charge Class A war crimes
conflict Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
surface form: Second Sino-Japanese War

Pacific War
surface form: World War II in the Pacific
convictedBy International Military Tribunal for the Far East
convictedOf crimes against peace
war crimes
countryOfCitizenship Japan
countryOfDeath Japan
ethnicGroup Japanese
familyName Itagaki
gender male
givenName Seishirō
historicalPeriod Showa era
surface form: Shōwa period
languageOfWorkOrName Japanese
mannerOfDeath execution
memberOf Imperial General Headquarters
Japanese Kwantung Army
surface form: Kwantung Army
militaryBranch Imperial Japanese Army
militaryRank full general
general
notableFor role in Japanese aggression in China and Manchuria
notableRole leading role in Japan’s militarist expansion in East Asia
notableWork Japanese occupation of Manchuria
surface form: Japanese invasion of Manchuria

military expansion in East Asia
planning of the Mukden Incident
occupation military officer
politician
participatedIn Japanese occupation of Manchuria
surface form: Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Mukden Incident
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
surface form: Second Sino-Japanese War

World War II
penalty death sentence
placeOfDeath Sugamo Prison
Tokyo
positionHeld Army Minister of Japan
Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army
Commander of the Chosen Army
Commander of the Kwantung Army
Member of the House of Peers of Japan
War Minister of Japan

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Itagaki Seishirō
Description of subject: Itagaki Seishirō was a Japanese general and political figure who played a leading role in Japan’s militarist expansion in East Asia before and during World War II, later executed as a convicted war criminal.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Imperial Japanese Army notableCommander Itagaki Seishirō
Battle of Taierzhuang opposingCommander Itagaki Seishirō
this entity surface form: Itagaki Seishiro
Battle of Xuzhou commander Itagaki Seishirō
this entity surface form: Itagaki Seishiro
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin commander Itagaki Seishirō
Battle of Guangzhou commander Itagaki Seishirō
this entity surface form: Itagaki Seishiro
Battle of Guangzhou commanderSide Itagaki Seishirō
this entity surface form: Itagaki Seishiro – Empire of Japan
Japanese 5th Division notableCommander Itagaki Seishirō
this entity surface form: Itagaki Seishiro
Ministry of War of Japan positionHeldBy Itagaki Seishirō
this entity surface form: Itagaki Seishiro