Kanji Ishiwara | |
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Ishiwara in 1934 | |
Born | January 18, 1889 Shōnai, Yamagata, Japan |
Died | August 15, 1949 Takase, Japan | (aged 60)
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Years of service | 1909–1941 |
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Commands | 4th Infantry Regiment, 1933–35 Chief of Operations Section, G-1, 1935–37 |
Battles/wars | Second Sino-Japanese War World War II |
Awards | Order of the Golden Kite (3rd Class) Order of the Rising Sun (3rd Class) Order of the Sacred Treasure (4th Class) |
Other work | Professor, Ritsumeikan University, 1941–42[1] |
Kanji Ishiwara (石原 莞爾, Ishiwara Kanji, 18 January 1889 – 15 August 1949) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He and Itagaki Seishirō were the men primarily responsible for the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931.