Kanji Ishiwara

Kanji Ishiwara
Born	January 18, 1889 Shōnai, Yamagata, Japan
Died	August 15, 1949(1949-08-15) (aged 60) Tokyo, Japan
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1909–1941
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	4th Infantry Regiment, 1933–35 Chief of Operations Section, G-1, 1935–37 Head of G-1, General Staff Office, 1937 Fort Maizuru, 1938 16th Division (Kyoto), 1939–41
Battles/wars	Second Sino-Japanese War World War II
Awards	Order of the Golden Kite (3rd Class) Order of the Rising Sun (3rd Class) Order of the Sacred Treasure (4th Class)
Other work	Professor, Ritsumeikan University, 1941–42[1]

Kanji Ishiwara (石原 莞爾, Ishiwara Kanji, 18 January 1889 – 15 August 1949) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He and Itagaki Seishirō were the men primarily responsible for the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931.