Kanji Ishiwara
| Kanji Ishiwara | |
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General Kanji Ishiwara
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| Born | January 18, 1889 Shōnai, Yamagata, Japan |
| Died | August 15, 1949 (aged 60) Tokyo, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Army
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| Years of service | 1909–1941 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held |
4th Infantry Regiment, 1933–35 |
| 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.
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