Renya Mutaguchi
| Renya Mutaguchi | |
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Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi
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| Born | October 7, 1888 Saga prefecture, Japan |
| Died | August 2, 1966 (aged 77) Tokyo. Japan |
| Allegiance |
 Empire of Japan
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| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Army
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| Years of service | 1910 -1945 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held | IJA 18th Division, IJA 15th Army |
| Battles/wars |
Siberian Intervention Second Sino-Japanese War World War II |
Renya Mutaguchi (牟田口 廉也 Mutaguchi Renya?, 7 October 1888 – 2 August 1966) was a Japanese military officer, lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Mutaguchi was a native of Saga Prefecture. He graduated from the 22nd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1910 and from the 29th class of the Army Staff College in 1917.
Mutaguchi served in the Japanese forces with the Siberian Intervention against the Bolshevik Red Army in the Russian Far East. Afterwards, he was sent as a military attaché to France.
Promoted to major in 1926 and colonel in 1930, from 1933-1936 he served in the General Affairs Section of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff in Tokyo, before being transferred to China in 1936 to take command of the Japanese garrison force in Beijing. He was commander of the IJA 1st Infantry Regiment in China from 1936–1938. Units responsible to Mutaguchi were involved in the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7 July 1937, which helped launch the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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