Seishiro Itagaki

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## Contents

* 1 Early career
* 2 Manchurian Incident
* 3 Manchukuo
* 4 War Minister
* 5 WWII
* 6 War crimes
* 7 References

Seishiro Itagaki (1885-1948) was an Imperial Japanese Army officer, a specialist in intelligence and covert operations in China, who was intimately involved in the Manchurian Incident and later for exploitation of Manchukuo.[1]

## Early career[edit]

After fighting in the Russo-Japanese War, he commanded the 33rd Regiment in China, and worked actively in Kunming, Wuhan and Shenyang. [2]

## Manchurian Incident[edit]

Beginning in 1929, he planned the incident with Kanji Ishiwara and ordered attacks during the actual incident.[3]

## Manchukuo[edit]

From 1932 to 1937, he was chief adviser on Manchukoan affairs for the Kwangtung Army.

## War Minister[edit]

In 1938 and 1939, he was war minister during the border wars with Russia, including the Nomohan Incident.

## WWII[edit]

Promoted to general in 1941, he took command of the Chosen Army in Korea in 1941, became Commander-in-Chief of the 17th Area Army in Korea in 1945, and then Commander-in-Chief of 7th Area Army in Singapore. [2]

## War crimes[edit]

He was condemned and hanged as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ David Bergamini (1971), Japan's Imperial Conspiracy, Morrow, p. 1090
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The 14 Class-A War Criminals Enshrined at Yasukuni, China through a Lens
3. ↑ Chapter V, Japanese Aggression Against China. Section I. Invasion & Occupation of Manchuria. The China War and Its Phases, International Military Tribunal for the Far East, pp. 550-551A