Lieutenant-General Hisakazu Tanaka/田中久一 陸軍中将

Hisakazu Tanaka /田中 久一, Tanaka Hisakazu, 16 March 1889 – 27 March 1947/ was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and governor of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in World War II.

Promotions

1934-03-05 Colonel
1937-12-28 Major-General
1940-08-01 Lieutenant-general

Service

1932-06-09 – 1933-08-01 Senior Staff Officer, Recruiting Branch, Military Service Bureau, Ministry of War
1933-08-01 – 1935-03-15 Instructor at the Army Infantry School
1935-03-15 – 1937-03-01 Commanding Officer 1st Imperial Guards Regiment
1937-08-01 – 1938-02-19 Instructor at the War College
1938-02-19 – 1938-09-08 Chief of Staff, Taiwan Army District
1938-09-08 – 1939-08-01 Chief of Staff, 21st Army
1939-08-01 – 1940-09-28 Commandant of Toyama Army School
1940-09-28 – 1943-03-01 General Officer Commanding 21st Division
1943-03-01 – 1945-09-XX General Officer Commanding 23rd Army [China]
1944-12-16 – 1945-09-XX Governor-General of Hong Kong
1946-03-XX – 1946-10-XX Arrested and tried as a war criminal
1946-10-XX Condemned to death as a war criminal
1947-03-27 Executed in China

See also https://asiamedals.info/threads/photos-with-japanese-commanding-officers-badges.23937/#post-349916

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