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...
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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...
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football Hitoshi Imamura (1886–1968), Japanese Army general during World War II Masahiro Imamura (born 1947), Japanese political figure Naoki Imamura (born...
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(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...
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Headquarters (IGH). Commanders of the operation included Isoroku Yamamoto and Hitoshi Imamura. The Japanese decided to withdraw and concede Guadalcanal to Allied...
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Islands campaigns. After the Japanese Eighth Area Army under General Hitoshi Imamura took over operations in the theater, Hyakutake directed Japanese army...
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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...
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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...
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retake Henderson Field. On 26 November, Japanese Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura took command of the newly formed Eighth Area Army at Rabaul. The new...
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commanded by General Harukichi Hyakutake. Hyukatake reported to General Hitoshi Imamura, commander of the Japanese Eighth Area Army, headquartered at Rabaul...
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(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...
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Japanese, including Hatta. There, he met the Japanese commander General Hitoshi Imamura, who asked Sukarno and other nationalists to galvanise support from...
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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...
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Training Harukichi Hyakutake: Inspector General of Signal Training Hitoshi Imamura: Deputy Chief, Inspectorate General of Military Training Masatane Kanda:...
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Shima Jinichi Kusaka Shōji Nishimura † Gunichi Mikawa Raizo Tanaka Hitoshi Imamura Harukichi Hyakutake Minoru Sasaki Hatazō Adachi Casualties and losses...
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headquarters of the Eighth Area Army, under the command of General Hitoshi Imamura: the 17th Division (11,429 personnel at the end of the war); the 38th Division...
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constructed at that location. The 8th Area Army was commanded by General Hitoshi Imamura who had at his disposal nearly 200,000 men. In early 1943, the Japanese...
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a division that would advance overland on Lae. Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, the commander of the Japanese Eighth Area Army at Rabaul, correctly...
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Java – including the entire Sixteenth Army, under Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, in over 50 transport ships – was entering Bantam Bay, near the northwest...
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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...
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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...
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several days later. Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka and Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura had no intention of allowing New Georgia to fall the way Guadalcanal...
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Following these operations, the 16th Army, led by Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, and the 25th Army, under the command of General Yamashita Tomoyuki...
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action off Bougainville. The Japanese Eighth Area Army, under General Hitoshi Imamura at Rabaul, was responsible for both the New Guinea and Solomon Islands...
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original on 2012-03-25. L, Klemen (1999–2000). "Lieutenant-General Hitoshi Imamura". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942. Archived...
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under the Eighth Area Army, based at Rabaul and commanded by General Hitoshi Imamura. In September 1943, as a result of the failure to stop Allied advances...
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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...
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aircraft carrier HMS Glory. Representing the Japanese were General Hitoshi Imamura, Commander Eighth Area Army, and Admiral Jinichi Kusaka, Commander...
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officer for Japanese naval forces in the Rabaul area, along with General Hitoshi Imamura, the senior Imperial Japanese Army commander for the area, surrendered...
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garrison on the island, consisting of around 93,000 men from General Hitoshi Imamura's Eighth Area Army. This became a lynchpin in the defensive barrier...
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