Masazumi Inada
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Masazumi Inada, (稲田正純), (1896 – 1986) was a Lieutenant-General in the Japanese Imperial Army. Masazumi Inada's career began in the artillery. He rose from lieutenant, to Lt. Colonel, serving in artillery and staff positions. Promoted to Colonel, served as Chief of 2nd Section (Maneuvers & War Plans), 1st Bureau, General Staff from 1938 to 1939, and was involved in the planning of the Battle of Wuhan and subsequent operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War, Battle of Lake Khasan and Battle of Khalkhin Gol. From 1940 he was commanding officer of the Hotory Fortress Artillery Regiment. In 1941 he became Vice Chief of Staff of the Japanese 5th Army in Manchukuo and then in 1942 the Chief of Staff. He was then sent to be Vice Chief of Staff of Southern Expeditionary Army Group from 1942 to 1943. To support Japanese forces in New Guinea he was sent in 1943 to be commanding officer of the 2nd Field Operations Base Area. In 1944 he was made the commander of the Japanese 6th Air Division. Later that year, due to a diplomatic incident in Thailand, he was placed in reserve, then sent to be commander of the 3rd Shipping Transport Command, in Singapore. Promoted to Lt. General he was also made Chief of Staff of the Japanese 16th Area Army until the end of the War. Demobilized in 1945, he was convicted and imprisoned as a war criminal from 1946 to 1951.
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- Coox, Alvin D. The Anatomy of a Small War: The Soviet-Japanese Struggle for Changkufeng/Khasan, 1938. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977 ISBN 0-8371-9479-2
- Alvin D Coox, "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939", ISBN 0-8047-1835-0
External links
- Generals of WWII, Japan, Masazumi Inada
- 稲田正純with photo
