Imamura, Hitoši

Imamura Hitoši

Born sa in the city Sendai ako son sudcu. In 1907 terminates vojenskú the academy is his life and the year 1915 armádne vojnové kolégium. In 1917, the sa happens kapitánom and nasledovného year's military attaché in England. In 1927 zastáva rovnaký post in British India. After ako sa becomes colonel, zastáva rôzne śtábne pozície within operačnej sekcie Generálneho staff.
After the incidente 28.01.1932 preberá velenie 57. pešieho regiment in China and in rokoch 1932-1935 in charge of a Military school Narashino.
In marci 1935 sa becomes generálmajorom and gets velenie 40. pešej brigade up to marco 1936 ever explored sa becomes zástupcom chief of staff, Kuantungskej army in Mančukuo. After svojom now are back to eating in Japan in 1937 in charge Tojamske school pechoty and 1938.
In marci 1938 sa t generálporučíkom and he's zverené velenie 5. divízie in China, ktorej in charge during the počiatočných the battle the second Sino-japanese war in 1940.
In rokoch 1940-1941 is zástupcom Generálneho inšpektora pre military training and after sa happens velitelom 23. army.

War in the Pacific
In novembri 1941 gets velenie 16. army and is poverený leadership invázie to Dutch východných India. When sa his transportné vessel Ryujo-maru, približovalo to Jave, bolo zasiahnuté torpedo, during the battle of the strait of Sunda, probably japanese, and bol so nútený doplávať to pobrežiu.
Koncom year 1942 preberá velenie 8. oblastnej army so sídlom in Rabaul, under the given podliehajú 17. armada that sá involved in the campaign to Šalamúnových ostrovoch and 18. army that fights in the campaign to New Guinea.
Imamura sa gets into frequent sporov with nadriadeními in staff Južnej army and in Císařskom generálnom staff, pre his mierny attitude to miestnemu population. However, thanks to this you won čiastočnú support in the house obyvatelov what uľahčovalo okupáciu obsadených territory and ich management.
In 1945, the sa happens generálom and together with the vice admirálom Jinichi Kusaka, in septembri 1945, sa vzdáva Austrálskym units, which reprezentujú the allied forces and the signing kapituláciu jednotiek to New Guinea and juhopacifických ostrovoch.

Povojnové obdobie
Imamura is in Rabaule arrested by australian troops, florence or you his units are podozrivé zo spáchania vojnových zločinov, which they committed in the time when the crime velil, zahrňujúc execution of the allied vojnových zajatcov. Pre tieto, really, is built of pre military tribunal.
In apríly 1946, Imamura napísal the australian commander in Rabaule to his process urýchlil and crime spôsobom bolo possible stíhať skutočných zodpovedních for vojnové crimes that committed by its units. Imamura was given for the guilty, that of nedbanlivosti sa got rid of their duty of control over your podriadenými and that subsequently committed brutal acts and ďalšie ťažké crimes. Bol súdený and právoplatne odsúdený to 10 years žalára australian military súdom in Rabaule 1-16. maya 1947. Imamura has done his punishment vo väznici on the island of Manu and after it zatvorení in Sugamo, Tokyo and bol prepustený in 1954.

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