Takashi Hishikari

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(1871-1952)

Takashi Hishikari was a Japanese General in the Imperial Japanese Army and was Commander in Chief of Kwantung Army during the pacification of Manchukuo. From 1920 to 1923 he was Commandant of the Infantry School. In 1927 he became Commander of the 4th Division. The following year he was made Commander in Chief of the Formosa Army District, on Taiwan. In 1930 he was assigned to be Commander in Chief of Kwantung Army in Manchuria. He was replaced on the 1st of August 1931, less than a month before the Mukden Incident. Following the invasion of Northern China in Operation Nekka he was promoted in 1933 to be Commander in Chief Kwantung Army for the second time.

During his period of command, he administered the agreement reached between Japan and China whereby Japan withdrew from North China on August 7th 1933, to the north of the Great Wall. He also commanded the continuing operations against the remaining Chinese guerilla forces in the newly established state of Manchukuo to which Takashi Hishikari was also made Ambassador and as such supervised establishing Henry Puyi as Emperor of Manchukuo.

On September 25th 1933, Russia protested an alleged plot for Manchukuoan seizure of Chinese Eastern Railway. Accusing that it was a carefully worked out plan adopted in Harbin at a series of meetings of the Japanese military mission and the responsible Japanese administrators of Manchukuo. The Japanese had been offered the railway for sale by the Russians a few months earlier. On the 10th of December 1934 he was replaced by General Jiro Minami.