Yasuji Okamura
Japanese general (1884-1966) · Japan · On the map · Died at 82
Yasuji Okamura was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army from November 1944 to the end of World War II, and appointed to surrender all Japanese forces involved in the China Burma India theater.
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1966Died2 September 19661942Order of the Golden Kite, 1st ClassAward1940Order of the Rising Sun, 1st classAward1937Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st ClassAward1884Born15 May 1884
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He was tried but found not guilty of any war crimes by the Shanghai War Crimes Tribunal after the war. As one of the Imperial Japanese Army's top China experts, General Okamura spent his entire military career on the Asian mainland.
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Lived 1884 to 1966 · aged 82