Prince Kan'in Kotohito

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Prince Kan'in Kotohito
閑院宮載仁親王
Kotohito in 1936
Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff
In office December 23, 1931 – October 3, 1940
Monarch	Shōwa
Prime Minister	Inukai Tsuyoshi Saito Makoto Keisuke Okada Kōki Hirota Senjuro Hayashi Fumimaro Konoe Hiranuma Kiichirō Nobuyuki Abe Mitsumasa Yonai
Preceded by	Kanaya Hanzo[note 1]
Succeeded by	Hajime Sugiyama
Personal details
Born	(1865-11-10)November 10, 1865 Kyoto, Tokugawa shogunate (present-day Japan)
Died	May 21, 1945(1945-05-21) (aged 79) Odawara, Kanagawa, Empire of Japan
Relations	Prince Kan'in Haruhito
Awards	Order of the Golden Kite (2nd Class) Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum
Nickname	Prince messenger
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1881–1945
Rank	Field Marshal (Gensui)
Commands	1st Division Imperial Guards Division Chief of Army General Staff
Battles/wars	First Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War Battle of Wuhan

Prince Kan'in Kotohito (閑院宮載仁親王, Kan'in-no-miya Kotohito-shinnō, November 10, 1865 – May 21, 1945) was the sixth head of a cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940. During his tenure as the Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, the Imperial Japanese Army committed numerous war crimes against Chinese civilians including the Nanjing massacre and the systemic use of chemical and bacteriological weapons. Prince Kan'in Kotohito died several months before the end of the Second World War.
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