Hitoshi Imamura (今村 均, Imamura Hitoshi, 28 June 1886 – 4 October 1968) was a Japanese general who served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War...

(ca. 3,000 men): Brigadier Arthur S. Blackburn. 16th Army: General Hitoshi Imamura 2nd Division (Maruyama Masao) 2nd Company and 4th Company of 2nd Tank...

politician Hitoshi Igarashi (五十嵐 一, 1947—1991), Japanese scholar and murder victim Hitoshi Ikebe (池部 鈞, 1886–1969), Japanese painter Hitoshi Imamura (今村 均...

Army Academy in 1913. Imamura reached the rank of lieutenant-general in the Kwantung Army. His older brother was Imamura Hitoshi, a general in the Japanese...

football Hitoshi Imamura (1886–1968), Japanese Army general during World War II Masahiro Imamura (born 1947), Japanese political figure Naoki Imamura (born...

began the campaign by sending the 16th Army under command of General Hitoshi Imamura to attack Borneo. On 17 December 1941 Japanese forces landed at Miri...

retake Henderson Field. On 26 November, Japanese Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura took command of the newly formed Eighth Area Army at Rabaul. The new...

Islands campaigns. After the Japanese Eighth Area Army under General Hitoshi Imamura took over operations in the theater, Hyakutake directed Japanese army...

until the surrender of Japan. He was the brother-in-law of General Hitoshi Imamura. After the war, Tanabe was charged with war crimes, found guilty, and...

Headquarters (IGH). Commanders of the operation included Isoroku Yamamoto and Hitoshi Imamura. The Japanese decided to withdraw and concede Guadalcanal to Allied...

commanded by General Harukichi Hyakutake. Hyukatake reported to General Hitoshi Imamura, commander of the Japanese Eighth Area Army, headquartered at Rabaul...

(16 left the ship) Japan All forces on Bougainville Island 21,335 Hitoshi Imamura August 21 August 21 Japan All forces in Manchuria 1,950,479 Otozō Yamada...

Training Harukichi Hyakutake: Inspector General of Signal Training Hitoshi Imamura: Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training Masatane Kanda:...

bases. On January 18, 1942, the commander of 16th Army Lt. General Hitoshi Imamura arrived at Takao, Taiwan from his base at Saigon. He received an order...

Java – including the entire Sixteenth Army, under Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, in over 50 transport ships – was entering Bantam Bay, near the northwest...

Shima Jinichi Kusaka Shōji Nishimura † Gunichi Mikawa Raizo Tanaka Hitoshi Imamura Harukichi Hyakutake Minoru Sasaki Hatazō Adachi Casualties and losses...

Japanese, including Hatta. There, he met the Japanese commander General Hitoshi Imamura, who asked Sukarno and other nationalists to galvanise support from...

officer for Japanese naval forces in the Rabaul area, along with General Hitoshi Imamura, the senior Imperial Japanese Army commander for the area, surrendered...

campaigns of the South West Pacific theatre of World War II. After General Hitoshi Imamura took over command of the Japanese Eighth Area Army the 17th Army was...

several days later. Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka and Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura had no intention of allowing New Georgia to fall the way Guadalcanal...

transport Ryūjō Maru with IJA 16th Army commander Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura aboard. In March, Mogami and Cruiser Division 7 were based out of Singapore...

critical of Masaharu Homma for being too "soft" on Filipinos and of Hitoshi Imamura for being too lenient to the Indonesian independence movement. Terauchi's...

action off Bougainville. The Japanese Eighth Area Army, under General Hitoshi Imamura at Rabaul, was responsible for both the New Guinea and Solomon Islands...

Harukichi Hyakutake Commander of Occupied New Guinea 1942–1945 with Hitoshi Imamura Succeeded by Jack Keith Murray as Administrator of Papua and New Guinea...

a division that would advance overland on Lae. Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, the commander of the Japanese Eighth Area Army at Rabaul, correctly...

the war, Imamura, Sakai, and Tanaka were all tried and convicted of war crimes. Sakai and Tanaka were tried in China and executed, while Imamura received...

Allied landings on Bougainville at Cape Torokina, Japanese General Hitoshi Imamura, commander of the 8th Area Army at Rabaul, determined to launch a counterattack...

Akito; Barucci, Maria Antonietta; Genda, Hidenori; Hirata, Naru; Ikeda, Hitoshi; Imamura, Takeshi; Helbert, Jörn; Kameda, Shingo; Kobayashi, Masanori; Kusano...

Following these operations, the 16th Army, led by Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, and the 25th Army, under the command of General Yamashita Tomoyuki...

transport Ryujo Maru with IJA 16th Army commander Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura—although the general survived the sinking. In March, Mikuma and Cruiser...