Shunroku Hata

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Shunroku Hata
畑俊六
Field Marshal Shunroku Hata serving at Second General Army
Minister of War
In office August 30, 1939 – July 22, 1940
Monarch	Shōwa
Prime Minister	Nobuyuki Abe Mitsumasa Yonai
Preceded by	Seishirō Itagaki
Succeeded by	Hideki Tōjō
Personal details
Born	July 26, 1879 Fukushima Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died	May 10, 1962(1962-05-10) (aged 82) Tokyo, Japan
Awards	Order of the Rising Sun First Class Order of the Golden Kite First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure First Class
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1901–1945
Rank	Field Marshal (Gensui)
Unit	Third Army (Japan)
Commands	14th Division Taiwan Army of Japan China Expeditionary Army Second General Army (Japan)
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War World War I Second Sino-Japanese War Battle of Xuzhou Battle of Wuhan Battle of Taierzhuang Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign Operation Ichi-Go World War II Atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Shunroku Hata (畑俊六, Hata Shunroku, July 26, 1879 – May 10, 1962) was a field marshal (gensui) in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was the last surviving Japanese military officer with a marshal's rank. Hata was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948, but was paroled in 1955.