"I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me."
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PrisonersPeople indicted for war crimesImperial JapanMilitary leaders from JapanMinisters of defense and military administration of Japan
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Quoted in "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939" - by Alvin D. Coox - Page 1184 - 1990
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Shunroku Hata
Shunroku Hata (July 26, 1879 – May 10, 1962) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was appointed as commanding general of the Central China Expeditionary Army in February 1938, to replace General Matsui Iwane. Hata returned to China as commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army in March 1941 and was the main commander at the time of the Changjiao Massacre. He was awarded the rank of field marshal on June 2, 1944. Hata was arrested by the American occup
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