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Allegiance
  
Name
  
Kanichiro Tashiro

Service/branch
  
Years of service
  
1903 - 1937

Battles and wars
  
Rank
  
Lieutenant general

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Born
  
September 1, 1881Saga prefecture, Japan (
1881-09-01
)

Commands held
  
11th Infantry DivisionJapanese China Garrison Army

Battles/wars
  
Died
  
July 16, 1937, Tianjin, China

Similar People
  
Kiyoshi Katsuki, Song Zheyuan, Yoshinori Shirakawa, Cai Tingkai, Zhang Zhizhong

Kanichiro Tashiro (田代 皖一郎, Tashiro Kan'ichiro, 1 October 1881 – 16 July 1937) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army at the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Biography

A native of Saga prefecture, Tashiro graduated from the 15th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1903 and the 25th class of the Army War College (Japan) in 1913. He was on the staff of the Japanese delegation to the Washington Disarmament Conference in 1921. On his return to Japan, he served in a number of staff positions within the Imperial Army General Staff Office, including a stint from 1923-1924 when he was stationed in Hankou, China. Promoted to colonel in the infantry in 1924, he was given command of the IJA 30th Infantry Regiment.

Tashiro became Vice Chief of the 5th Section (Asian Intelligence), 2nd Bureau within the General Staff in 1926, and was promoted to major general in 1930, when he was given command of the IJA 27th Infantry Brigade.

He was the Chief of Staff of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army in the 1932 First Shanghai Incident. From 1933-1934, he served as commander of the Kempeitai within the Kwantung Army in Manchuria, and provost marshal from 1934-1935.

Tashiro was then assigned back to the field as commander of the IJA 11th Division from 1935–1936, and commander in chief of the Japanese China Garrison Army from 1936-1937 at the time of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

He was hospitalized for heart illness and died in Tianjin in 1937.

References

Kanichiro Tashiro Wikipedia


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