Rikichi Andō

Rikichi Andō
Japanese General Andō Rikichi in 1940
Born	April 3, 1884 Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Died	April 19, 1946(1946-04-19) (aged 62) Shanghai, Republic of China
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1914 - 1945
Rank	General
Commands held	Twenty-First Army Southern China Area Army Taiwan Army of Japan Tenth Area Army
Battles/wars	Second Sino-Japanese War
Other work	Governor-General of Taiwan

Rikichi Andō (安藤 利吉, Andō Rikichi^?, 3 April 1884 – 19 April 1946) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and 19th and final Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan from 30 December 1944 to October 1945.

Andō was a native of Miyagi Prefecture. He served as an instructor at the Army War College (Japan) from 1924-1925. From 1925-1927, he was sent to British India as a military attaché, and on his return to Japan, served in a number of staff assignments under the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He returned to the field in 1928 as commander of the 13th Infantry Regiment, and was promoted to Chief of Staff of the IJA 5th Division in 1930.

From 1931-1932, Andō returned to the General Staff, where he was Chief of Military Administration Section, Military Affairs Bureau. He was appointed military attaché to the United Kingdom from 1932-1934. After his return to Japan, he became Commandant of the Toyoma Army Infantry School, and subsequently commander of the 5th Independent Garrison Unit. From 1937-1938, he was Deputy Inspector-General of Military Training.

With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Andō was given a field assignment as commander of his old unit, the IJA 5th Division in 1938. Later that year, he was promoted to commander in chief of the IJA 21st Army in China, which became part of the Japanese Southern China Area Army in 1939. The Japanese Southern China Area Army was largely a garrison force controlling Japanese-occupied Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces.