Kesago Nakajima
Kesago Nakajima | |
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 General Kesago Nakajima | |
| Native name | Trung đảo sáng nay ngô |
| Born | June 15, 1881 Oita prefecture,Japan |
| Died | October 28, 1945(aged 64) Empire of Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/ | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Years of service | 1903 -1939 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands | IJA 16th Division, IJA 4th Army |
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Kesago Nakajima(Trung đảo sáng nay ngô,Nakajima Kesago,15 June 1881 – 28 October 1945)was alieutenant generalin theImperial Japanese Armyduring theSecond Sino-Japanese War,Japanese forces under Nakajima's command committed the 1937Nanjing Massacre.
Biography
[edit]A native ofOita prefecture,Nakajima attended military preparatory schools as a youth, and graduated from the 15th class of theImperial Japanese Army Academyin 1903. He served in combat in theRusso-Japanese War.After the war, he attended theArmy War College (Japan),and graduated from the 25th class in 1913. From July 1918 to May 1923, he was stationed inFranceas amilitary attaché.He was promoted tomajor generalin April 1932 and was appointed commander of theMaizuruArmy District, responsible for the defenses of Honshū’s coast along theSea of Japan.[1]
Nakajima served as commandant of theNarashinoChemical Warfare School from 1933 to 1936. In March 1936, he was promoted tolieutenant generaland was appointed aProvost Marshal.With the start of theSecond Sino-Japanese War,Nakajima was appointed commander of theIJA 16th Division,and participated in theSecond Shanghai Incidentand operations inHebei,China.Under the elderly GeneralIwane Matsui,Nakajima was named Operational Commander in theBattle of Nanjingin late-1937 and was thus the senior officer (aside from the nominal commander in chiefPrince Asaka) at the time of theNanjing massacre.Nakajima personally lended his sword to be used in the killings at Nanjing, and laughed as he and his men carried out the massacres.[2]
Nakaijma was subsequently at theBattle of Wuhanbefore being transferred to take command of theJapanese Fourth ArmyinManchukuofrom 1938 to 1939.
Recalled to Japan in 1939, Nakajima retired in September 1939 and died in October 1945 of illness.
References
[edit]Books
[edit]- Bix, Herbert P.(2001).Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan.Harper Perennial.ISBN0-06-093130-2.
- Dorn, Frank (1974).The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-41: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor.MacMillan.ISBN0-02-532200-1.
External links
[edit]- Ammenthorp, Steen."Kesago Nakajima".The Generals of World War II.
Notes
[edit]- ^Ammenthorp, The Generals of World War I
- ^Rigg, Bryan Mark(2024).Japan's Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II.Knox Press. p. 83.ISBN9781637586884.
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