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Itagaki Seishiro (板垣 征四郎) (January 21, 1885-December 23, 1948) was a Japanese military officer in the Guandong Army . He and Kanji Ishiwara were the men behind the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931. Courtesy Peoples Daily (http://www. ...
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The Kwantung Army or Guandong Army (関東軍 Japanese: Kantōgun) was a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that originated from a Guandong garrison established in 1906 to defend the Kwantung Leased Territory and the areas adjacent to the South Manchurian Railway. ...
Kanji Ishiwara (石原 莞爾, 1889 - 1949) was a Japanese military officer in the Guandong Army. ...
The Mukden Incident (September 18, 1931), also called Manchurian Incident, occurred in southern Manchuria when a section of railroad, owned by Japans South Manchuria Railway, near Mukden (奉天) (todays Shenyang) was blown up. ...
Extent of Manchuria according to Definition 1 (dark red), Definition 3 (dark red + medium red) and Definition 4 (dark red + medium red + light red) Manchuria (Manchu: Manju, Simplified Chinese: 满洲; Traditional Chinese: 滿洲; pinyin: ) or Northeast China (Simplified Chinese: 东北; Traditional Chinese: æ±åŒ—; pinyin: ; literally east-north) are names given to a vast territorial...
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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.
Mukden Incident: Information from Answers.com (2623 words)
Colonel Itagaki Seishiro and Lieutenant Colonel Kanji Ishiwara planned the incident in which officers of the Shimamoto Regiment, which guarded the South Manchuria Railway, arranged for sappers to place explosives beneath the tracks. While most members of the Japanese military have denied planting the bomb, Major Tadashi Hanaya, assistant to Itagaki Seishiro at the time of the incident, confessed that the bomb was planted and the incident staged by them. The main instigators of the incident were Kanji Ishihara and Seishiro Itagaki , staff officers of the Kwantung Army, a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.
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