# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/imamura-hosaku
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:49:44.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/imamura-hosaku"
name: "Imamura Hosaku"
slug: "imamura-hosaku"
description: "Imamura Hōsaku  was a Japanese military officer in the Kwantung Army who was most notable for staying in China after the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945. He and many of his fellow Japanese soldiers became mercenaries in the employ of the pro-Nationalist warlord of Shanxi, Yan Xishan, after the resumption of the Chinese Civil War. Imamura fought against the Communist forces until his death in battle in the closing weeks of the civil war."
tagline: "Japanese military officer (1900-1949)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/%E4%BB%8A%E6%9D%91_%E6%96%B9%E7%AD%96.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1900-01-04"
deathDate: "1949-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.18
  momentum:             2.506459948320414
  historical:           2.417424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  36
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imamura_Hosaku"
    title: "Imamura Hosaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BB%8A%E6%9D%91%E6%96%B9%E7%AD%96"
    title: "今村方策"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55647933"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations