Hideo Iwakuro

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Hideo Iwakuro
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Hideo Iwakuro (岩畔 豪雄, Iwakuro Hideo, 10 October 1897 – 22 November 1970) was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He is also known as one of the founders of the Kyoto Sangyo University.

Biography

Early career

Iwakuro was born on

Nagoya. He graduated in the 30th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1918, and was assigned to the 16th Infantry Regiment, based at Shibata city
in the Hokuetsu region of Japan.

In September 1920, Iwakuro's regiment was assigned as part of the Japanese expeditionary force participating in the

Manchurian Incident and assigned to the Kwantung Army, where he held a number of staff positions and was actively involved in planning the independence of Manchukuo
, and its future economic development under Imperial Japanese Army management.

Spymaster

Iwakuro was recalled to Japan shortly after the

Nanjing Nationalist Chinese government. In 1938, he was on the committee which established the Nakano School
, Japan's training school for intelligence and counter-intelligence agents.

From 1939-1941, Iwakuro was Chief of Army Affairs Section in the Military Affairs Bureau, where his primary task was military procurement. Using the

microwaves
, for potential military applications.

Iwakuro, unlike many in the Japanese Army senior staff, was always strongly against war with the Soviet Union (

Nomonhan Iwakuro became more outspoken in favor of the concept of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the need for Japan to prepare for total war
.

Diplomat

Iwakuro was sent as

5th Imperial Guards Regiment. But, according to John Toland, The Rising Sun, volume one, page 85, "The former (previous sentence referenced Matsuoka) suggested that Ikawa sound out the army in the person of an influential colonel in the War Ministry named Hideo Iwakuro.[2]

Command and Staff appointments

After the start of the Pacific War, the 5th Imperial Guards Regiment came under the command of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, and was assigned to Malaya and Singapore. While in Singapore, Iwakuro became head of the I Kikan, and was senior liaison officer with the Indian National Army.[3]

In 1943, Iwakuro was promoted to Vice Chief of Staff of the

Burma in 1944-5.[4]

Recalled to Japan before the end of the war, Iwakuro was attached to Army Ordnance Administrative Headquarters in 1945, and was Head of Army Investigation Department at the time of the end of the war.

After the war, in 1965, Iwakuro became one of the founders of the

heart attack
.

References

Books

External links

Notes

  1. ^ Review Of The Diplomatic Conversations
  2. ^ John Toland, The Rising Sun, page85.
  3. ^ Lebra, Japanese-trained Armies of Southeast Asia
  4. ^ Ammenthorp, The Generals of World War II
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