Yasuji Okamura

Yasuji Okamura
Yasuji Okamura
Native name	岡村 寧次
Born	(1884-05-15)15 May 1884 Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Died	2 September 1966(1966-09-02) (aged 82) Tokyo, Japan
Allegiance	Empire of Japan  Republic of China (military adviser)
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1904–1945
Rank	General
Unit	First Infantry Regiment
Commands held	China Expeditionary Army Northern China Area Army Eleventh Army 2nd Division
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War World War I Siege of Tsingtao Jinan incident January 28 incident Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933–1936) Defense of the Great Wall Second Sino-Japanese War Battle of Wuhan Battle of Nanchang Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang Battle of Changsha (1939) 1939–1940 Winter Offensive Battle of Changsha (1944) Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou Battle of West Hunan Pacific War Chinese Civil War First Taiwan Strait Crisis Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
Awards	Order of the Sacred Treasure First Class Order of the Golden Kite First Class Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun Victory Medal Military Medal of Honor
Other work	military advisor, veteran Association, author

Yasuji Okamura (岡村 寧次, Okamura Yasuji, 15 May 1884 – 2 September 1966) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army from November 1944 to the end of World War II, and appointed to surrender all Japanese forces involved in the China Burma India theater. He was tried but found not guilty of any war crimes by the Shanghai War Crimes Tribunal after the war. As one of the Imperial Japanese Army's top China experts, General Okamura spent his entire military career on the Asian mainland.^[1]