Michitarō Komatsubara
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- In this Japanese name, the family name is Komatsubara.
| Michitarō Komatsubara | |
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| 20 July 1885 - 6 October 1940 | |
 General Michitarō Komatsubara |
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| Place of birth | Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/branch |  Imperial Japanese Army |
| Years of service | 1905 -1940 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held | IJA 23rd Division |
| Battles/wars | World War I Soviet-Japanese Border Wars |
Michitarō Komatsubara (小松原道太郎 Komatsubara Michitarō?, 20 July 1885 - 6 October 1940) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, during the Nomonhan Incident.
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[edit] Biography
A native of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, where his father was a naval engineer, Komatsubara graduated from the 18th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1905. He served as a military attaché to Russia from 1909-1910, and became fluent in the Russian language. After his return to Japan, he was assigned to a number of staff positions within the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff and Supreme War Council (Japan). In 1914, he was part of the World War I Japanese Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Tsingtao. [1]
On Komatsubara's return to Japan in 1915, he graduated from the 27th class of the Army Staff College and was assigned as commander of the IJA 34th Infantry Regiment.
From 1919, Komatsubara was assigned to the Soviet Branch of the 4th Section (European & American Military Intelligence), 2nd Bureau, of the Army General Staff. After spending 1926-1927 as an instructor at the War College, he returned to Moscow again as a military attache from 1927-1929.
After Komatsubara returned again to Japan, he became commander of the IJA 57th Infantry Regiment from 1930-1932. Two years later, he became Chief of the Harbin Special Agency in Manchukuo. He was promoted to major general in 1934 and returned to Japan to take command of the IJA 8th Infantry Brigade. Subsequently, from 1936-1937, he was commander of the 1st Imperial Guards Brigade.
Promoted to lieutenant general in 1936, he was reassigned to Manchukuo as commander of the IJA 23rd Division, and served on the staff of the Kwangtung Army. He went into the reserves in disgrace over the Japanese defeat after the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, and committed suicide on 6 October 1940. [2]
[edit] References
[edit] Books
- Coox, Alvin D (1990). Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1835-0.
[edit] External links
- Ammenthorp, Steen. Komatsubara Michitaro. The Generals of World War II.
