Shunroku Hata

Hata Shunroku (Japanese畑俊六; * July 26, 1879, † May 10, 1962 ) was the Japanese Defense Minister and Marshal ( Gensui ) in World War II.

Hata graduated from the military academy of the army in the twelfth year. In 1933, Hata commander of the 14th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army and in 1932 was appointed to the first Shanghai Incident. After his return, he served as chief of the aviation headquarters, then commander of the Japanese troops in Taiwan (1936) and Inspector General of Military Training ( 1937).

1937 Hata was promoted to General and appointed commander of the Japanese expeditionary forces in central China in November of 1938. As such, he initiated the operation against Wuhan. Here, Hata commanded the Japanese central China Front Army during the advance and attack on Wuhan ( beginning in June ) from the south next to the commander of the 11th Army Okamura and the commander of the 2nd Army Higashikuni, while from the north, the 2nd Army of the Japanese North China Front Army under the command of Nishio, the 5th Division under the command of Itagaki and the 10th Division under the command of Isogai operated.

1939 appointed to the cabinet by Abe Nobuyuki Hata as Defense Minister. This post he held also in the following Cabinet of Yonai Mitsumasa 1940. Meanwhile overthrew the Cabinet of Admiral Yonai due to the withdrawal of the Army Minister Hata. With his resignation Hata had yielded to the pressure of the army, which did not support the pro-Western foreign policy Yonais longer. Thus the way was paved for the Tripartite Pact, which was negotiated and signed in the same year 1940 by Konoe Cabinet Fumimaros Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke and its. From March 1941 to November 1944 Hata finally was commander of the Japanese expeditionary army in China. In 1944, Hata led the Ichigo offensive from April to November.

Hata Shunroku stood at the International War Crimes Tribunal in Tōkyō under indictment because he responsible for the fall of the Cabinet Yonai 1940 and had suffered as Commander atrocities of the Japanese military in China. As a result, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released early in 1955. He died in 1962.

Rikugun Gensui Saigō

Nishio | Hata | Okamura

Marshal (Japan)
Defense Minister (Japan)
Of the Order of the Rising Sun
Japanese
Born in 1879
Died in 1962
Man
Military person ( Imperial Japanese Army )

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