Ishiwara Kanji

Kanji Ishiwara
General Kanji Ishiwara
Born	January 18, 1889 Shōnai, Yamagata, Japan
Died	August 15, 1949(1949-08-15) (aged 60) Tokyo, Japan
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1909–1941
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	4th Infantry Regiment, 1933–35 Chief of Operations Section, G-1, 1935–37 Head of G-1, General Staff Office, 1937 , 1938 16th Division (Kyoto), 1939–41
Battles/wars	Second Sino-Japanese War World War II
Awards	Order of the Golden Kite (3rd Class) Order of the Rising Sun (3rd Class) Order of the Sacred Treasure (4th Class)
Other work	Professor, Ritsumeikan University, 1941–42

4th Infantry Regiment, 1933–35
Chief of Operations Section, G-1, 1935–37
Head of G-1, General Staff Office, 1937
, 1938

Kanji Ishiwara (石原 莞爾, Ishiwara Kanji^?, 18 January 1889 – 15 August 1949) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He and Itagaki Seishirō were the men primarily responsible for the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931.

Ishiwara was born in Tsuruoka city, Yamagata prefecture into a samurai class family. His father was a police officer, but as his clan had supported the Tokugawa bakufu and then the Northern Alliance during the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration, its members were shut out of higher government positions.

At age thirteen, Ishiwara was enrolled in a military prep school. He was subsequently accepted at the 21st class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and graduated in 1909. He served in the IJA 65th Infantry Regiment in Korea after its annexation by Japan in 1910, and in 1915 he passed the exams for admittance to the 30th class of the Army Staff College. He graduated second in his class in 1918.