Michitarō Komatsubara
| Michitarō Komatsubara | |
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General Michitarō Komatsubara
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| Native name | 小松原 道太郎 |
| Born |
July 20, 1885 Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | October 6, 1940 (aged 55) |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/branch | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Years of service | 1905 -1940 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held | IJA 23rd Division |
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Michitarō Komatsubara (小松原 道太郎 Komatsubara Michitarō?, 20 July 1885 – 6 October 1940) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, during the Nomonhan Incident.
A native of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, where his father was a naval engineer, Komatsubara graduated from the 18th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1905. He served as a military attaché to Russia from 1909–1910, and became fluent in the Russian language. After his return to Japan, he was assigned to a number of staff positions within the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff and Supreme War Council (Japan). In 1914, he was part of the World War I Japanese Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Tsingtao.
On Komatsubara's return to Japan in 1915, he graduated from the 27th class of the Army Staff College and was assigned as commander of the IJA 34th Infantry Regiment.
From 1919, Komatsubara was assigned to the Soviet Branch of the 4th Section (European & American Military Intelligence), 2nd Bureau, of the Army General Staff. After spending 1926-1927 as an instructor at the War College, he returned to Moscow again as a military attache from 1927-1929.
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