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    Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島 満, Ushijima Mitsuru, 31 July 1887 – 22 June 1945) was a Japanese general who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World...
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  • baseball player Margaret Ushijima (1927–2013), Hawaiian lawyer Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島 満, 1887–1945), Japanese general Reece Ushijima (born 2003), Japanese-American...
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  • Japanese manga author Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島 満, 1887–1945), Japanese general who fought at the Battle of Okinawa during World War 2 Mitsuru Yoshida (吉田 満, 1923–1979)...
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    American invasion rather than a passive defense. He persuaded General Mitsuru Ushijima to launch the disastrous 5 May 1945 counteroffensive. By the middle...
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    General Mitsuru Ushijima decided to commit ritualistic suicide in Mabuni caves, Yahara requested permission to commit seppuku alongside them, but Ushijima refused...
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    Primary resistance was to be led in the south by Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, his chief of staff, Lieutenant General Isamu Chō and his chief of...
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  • of the Thirty-second Army commanded by Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima Mitsuru Ushijima - Commander of Japanese Army forces in Okinawa Isamu Cho -...
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    Yoshitsugu Saitō (1944) Hideyoshi Obata (1944) Kunio Nakagawa (1944) Mitsuru Ushijima (1945) Isamu Chō (1945) Korechika Anami (1945) Takijirō Ōnishi (1945)...
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    attempting to stop the landing at the beaches in earlier battles. General Mitsuru Ushijima made sure that the Americans would not even come close to the beaches...
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    in February 1945). In center: (1) Admiral Minoru Ota, (2) Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima, (3) Lt. Gen. Isamu Cho, (4) Col. Hitoshi Kanayama, (5) Col. Kikuji...
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    Mulcahy, USMC Major General Louis E. Woods, USMC Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima (seppuku 22 June) Approx. 67,000 men under arms, incl. 5,000 Okinawan...
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    actress and singer Kanbun Uechi, martial artist, founder of Uechi-ryū Mitsuru Ushijima, general at the Battle of Okinawa Kentsū Yabu, martial artist prominent...
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  • character in The Rising Tide and The Steel Wave), and Japanese General Mitsuru Ushijima. The second part of the narrative is told primarily from the viewpoints...
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    troops defending Okinawa, under the command of Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, totaled some 75,000–100,000, augmented by thousands of civilians....
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    later First Area Army), Isamu Yokoyama (1st Division, later 4th Army), Mitsuru Ushijima (11th Division), and Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1st Cavalry Brigade, Mongolia...
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    Hideki Tojo Shunroku Hata Kiichiro Higuchi Tadamichi Kuribayashi † Mitsuru Ushijima † Matome Ugaki † Seiichi Itō † Casualties and losses Comparatively...
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    border forces. At the time it was commanded by Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima. In February 1944, a large part of division (3rd battalions of 12th...
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  • Seijun Inada Akiho Ishii Susumu Nishiura Tokutaro Sakurai Kōtoku Satō Mitsuru Ushijima Masao Watanabe Hiromichi Yahara Yasuyo Yamazaki Prince Kan'in Kotohito:...
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  • killer, hanging Andrew Urdiales (2018), American serial killer, hanging Mitsuru Ushijima (1945), Japanese general, began to commit ritual seppuku disembowelment...
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    Prefecture. He was sent to Okinawa in 1945 and died in the battle. Mitsuru Ushijima was the Japanese general at the Battle of Okinawa, during the final...
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  • Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician (d. 1957) July 31 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (d. 1945) August 3 Rupert Brooke, British war poet...
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  • 149-minute running time on 11 September 1973. Keijyu Kobayashi as Mitsuru Ushijima Tetsuro Tamba as Isamu Chō Tatsuya Nakadai as Hiromichi Yahara Yūsuke...
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  • activist (b. 1891) 1945 – Isamu Chō, Japanese general (b. 1895) 1945 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887) 1956 – Walter de la Mare, English poet...
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  • 1888) June 22 Isamu Chō, Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. 1895) Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (ritual suicide) (b. 1887) June 24 – José Gutiérrez...
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    marines faced no opposition early in the operation; Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima had withdrawn the bulk of his 100,000-strong army to the southern two-thirds...
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  • nursing. After the suicide of the General of the Imperial Japanese Army Mitsuru Ushijima, she was helped by Hiroshi Komiya who was a translator in Okinawa and...
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    Asaka, Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko, Prince Kitashirakawa Naruhisa, Mitsuru Ushijima, Heitarō Kimura, Takashi Sakai, and Shōjirō Iida. His speciality was...
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    as inhabitants, were pushed into the Southern border of Okinawa and Mitsuru Ushijima and Isamu Chō, top generals committed suicide on June 22 or 23, 1945...
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  • Chō, 50, Japanese lieutenant general (committed seppuku on Okinawa); Mitsuru Ushijima, 57, Japanese general (committed seppuku on Okinawa) Representatives...
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  • to use the partially completed fortifications as false targets by Mitsuru Ushijima. Starting on 1 April 1945, the division fought in the Battle of Okinawa...
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