(Redirected from Itagaki Seishiro) was a Japanese military officer in the
Guandong Army.
Seishiro Itagaki was born into a family that were former
samurai retainers of the
Nanbu clan of
Morioka han. He graduated from the
Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1904. He fought in the
Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05. He was the commanding officer of the 33rd Regiment in
China.
As a Japanese military officer in the
Kwantung Army from 1929 to 1934, he planned the
1931 Mukden Incident along with
Kanji Ishiwara.
He rose to the rank of
lieutenant general with the Japanese Army. He became chief of staff of the
Kwantung Army in
1936.
From 1937 to 1938 he was the General commanding the
IJA 5th Division in China during the early part of the
Second Sino-Japanese War. His Division took a leading part in the
Battle of Beiping-Tianjin,
Operation Chahar, and the
Battle of Taiyuan. However in the
Battle of Xuzhou his Division received a repulse during the
Battle of Taierzhuang in the vicinity of
Linyi that prevented it from coming to the aid of
Rensuke Isogai's
IJA 10th Division.
He was appointed minister of war in 1938 and then chief of staff of the China Expeditionary Army in
1939. He attained the rank of general in the Japanese Army serving with the Chief Chosen Army in
Korea in
1941.
He was named Commander-in-Chief of the 17th Area Army in Korea in
1945. He became Commander-in-Chief of 7th Area Army in
Singapore later that same year.
He was condemned to death and hanged as a
war criminal in
1948 by the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
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