Rikichi Andō

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Rikichi Andō
Japanese General Andō Rikichi in 1940
Governor General of Taiwan
In office
30 December 1944 – 25 October 1945
MonarchShōwa
Preceded byKiyoshi Hasegawa
Succeeded byChen Yi (as Chief Executive of Taiwan Province)
Personal details
Born3 April 1884
Tenth Area Army
Battles/warsSecond Sino-Japanese War

Rikichi Andō (安藤 利吉, Andō Rikichi, 3 April 1884 – 19 April 1946) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and 19th and final Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan from 30 December 1944 to October 1945.

Biography

Early career

Andō was a native of

IJA 5th Division
in 1930.

From 1931-1932, Andō returned to the General Staff, where he was Chief of Military Administration Section, Military Affairs Bureau. He was appointed military attaché to the United Kingdom from 1932-1934. After his return to Japan, he became Commandant of the Toyoma Army Infantry School, and subsequently commander of the 5th Independent Garrison Unit. From 1937-1938, he was Deputy Inspector-General of Military Training.

The man who started the Pacific War

With the outbreak of the

Guangxi Provinces
.

In the midst of diplomatic negotiations between Japan and its ally,

invasion of French Indochina
created a diplomatic confrontation with the West and the imposition of an American oil embargo against Japan. Andō was recalled to Tokyo on 9 February 1941 and forced into retirement as punishment.

Taiwan

Chen Yi (right) accepting the receipt of Order No. 1 signed by Rikichi Andō (left), the last Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan, in Taipei City Hall.[1]

In the fall of 1941, Andō was recalled to service, promoted to full general, and given command of the

Japanese Tenth Area Army in Taiwan. The 10th Area Army was essentially the "Taiwan Army", as it had no additional combat forces assigned to it, and served as a garrison force for the island. Ando became the final Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan on 30 December 1944.[2] After the end of the war, the 10th Area Army was disbanded in September 1945.[3]

Arrested by Chinese authorities and charged with

war crimes from his tenure in China, Andō committed suicide by taking poison while in prison in Shanghai
before he could go to trial.

See also

References

Books

  • Fuller, Richard (1992). Shokan: Hirohito's Samurai. London: Arms and Armor.
    ISBN 1-85409-151-4
    .
  • Shih Shan, Henry Tsai (2005). Lee Teng-hui and Taiwan's Quest for Identity. Palgrave Macmillan.
    ISBN 1-4039-7056-4
    .

Notes

  1. ^ 中山堂受降檔案分析 Archived 2014-12-07 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Wendel, Axis History Factbook
  3. ^ [1] Wendel, Axis History.com

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