Michitarō Komatsubara
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Michitarō Komatsubara (小松原 道太郎, Komatsubara Michitarō, 20 July 1885 – 6 October 1940) was a general in the
Nomonhan Incident
.
Biography
A native of
Battle of Tsingtao.[1]
On Komatsubara's return to Japan in 1915, he graduated from the 27th class of the Army Staff College and was assigned as commander of the IJA 34th Infantry Regiment.
From 1919, Komatsubara was assigned to the Soviet Branch of the 4th Section (European & American
Military Intelligence), 2nd Bureau, of the Army General Staff. After spending 1926–1927 as an instructor at the War College, he returned to Moscow
again as a military attache from 1927–1929.
After Komatsubara returned again to Japan, he became commander of the IJA 57th Infantry Regiment from 1930–1932. Two years later, he became Chief of the Harbin Special Agency in
1st Imperial Guards Brigade
.
Promoted to
Tokyo University hospital, where he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Transferred to the army medical school, the general died on 6 October 1940 at age 55, less than eight months after retiring from the army.[2]
Footnotes
References
- Ammenthorp, Steen (2000). "Komatsubara Michitaro". The Generals of World War II. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ISBN 0-8047-1160-7.
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