Kanichiro Tashiro

Kanichirō Tashiro
General Kanichirō Tashiro
Born (1881-09-01)September 1, 1881
Saga prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died July 16, 1937(1937-07-16) (aged 55)
Tianjin, Republic of China
Allegiance  Empire of Japan
Service/branch Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service 1903 - 1937
Rank Lieutenant General
Commands held 11th Infantry Division
Japanese China Garrison Army
Battles/wars Second Sino-Japanese War

Kanichirō Tashiro (田代 皖一郎, Tashiro Kan'ichirō, 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.[1]Before World War II the IJA fought in China and against the USSR. Under the terms of Boxer protocol of 1901 Japan maintained a garrison in China to guard its embassy and to protect Japanese officials. This force was also known as the China Garrison Army.[2] This force was located in Tianjin with a major detechment in Beijing.[3]

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. Lieutenant-General Kanichirō Tashiro was in command of this Army till 11 July 1937.[4]

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

References

  1. ↑ Ammenthorp, The Generals of World War II
  2. ↑ Kaushik Roy, Sepoys against the Rising Sun: The Indian Army in Far East and South-East Asia, 1941–45. Brill Open, 2016, p.39
  3. ↑ Robert B Durham, False Flags, Covert Operations, & Propaganda. Lulu.com, 2014, p.102
  4. ↑ Kaushik Roy, Sepoys against the Rising Sun: The Indian Army in Far East and South-East Asia, 1941–45. Brill Open, 2016, p.39
  • Ammenthorp, Steen. "Tashiro Kanishiro". The Generals of World War II.
  • Dorn, Frank (1974). The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-41;: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor. MacMillan. ISBN 0-02-532200-1.


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