Itagaki Seishiro
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Itagaki Seishiro (板垣 征四郎 Itagaki Sēshirō; January 21, 1885 - December 23, 1948) was a Japanese military officer in the Guandong Army.
Seishiro Itagaki graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1904. He fought in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05. He was the commanding officer of the 33rd Regiment in China.
As a Japanese military officer in the Kwantung Army from 1929 to 1934, he planned the 1931 Mukden Incident along with Kanji Ishiwara.
He rose to the rank of lieutenant general with the Japanese Army. He became chief of staff of the Kwantung Army in 1936. He was appointed minister of war in 1938 and then chief of staff of the China Expeditionary Army in 1939. He attained the rank of general in the Japanese Army serving with the Chief Chosen Army in Korea in 1941.
He was named Commander-in-Chief of the 17th Area Army in Korea in 1945. He became Commander-in-Chief of 7th Area Army in Singapore later that same year.
He was condemned to death and hanged as a war criminal in 1948 by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
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