Ushiroku Jun

Lieutenant General Ushiroku Jun (June 5, 1940)

Ushiroku Jun ( Japanese : 後宮 淳 ; * September 28, 1884 in the prefecture of Kyoto , Japanese Empire ; † November 24, 1973 ) was a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force , who was in command of the 26th Army between 1937 and 1939 Division , Commander-in-Chief of the 4th Army between 1939 and 1940 and Commander -in-Chief of the South China Regional Army from 1940 to 1941 . Most recently he was Vice-Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II in 1944 and from 1944 to 1945 Supreme Commander of the 3rd Regional Army .

Life

Ushiroku Jun, the son of a farmer, began training as an officer at the Army Officer School after completing school and became a lieutenant in the 38th Infantry Regiment in March 1905 . After various uses, he completed his training at the Army University in 1917 . After various other posts as an officer and staff officer, he was promoted to colonel on August 1, 1929 and was then commander of the 48th Infantry Regiment between August 1, 1929 and August 1, 1931. Then he was from August 1, 1931 to February 5, 1932 first chief of the staff of the 4th Division (Yodo Division) and was then seconded to the Kwantung Army on February 5, 1932 , in which he between April 5 and August 1, 1934 was the chief railway officer of the section for special services. There he was promoted to major general on March 5, 1934 .

After his return, Major General Ushiroku was chief of the 3rd Section of the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army between August 1, 1934 and August 13, 1935, and then head of the personnel department of the Army Ministry from August 13, 1935 to March 1, 1937 . He then acted between March 1 and October 5, 1937 in personal union at the same time as head of the military services department of the Army Ministry and as chief secretary of the Supreme War Council (Gunji sangiin) . In these uses he was promoted to Lieutenant General (Rikugun Chūjō) on August 2, 1937 . He then became commander of the newly established 26th Division (Quelle Division) on October 5, 1937 , with which he was stationed in northern China until his replacement by Lieutenant General Kuroda Shigenori during the Second Sino-Japanese War . He then replaced Lieutenant General Nakashima Kesago as Commander in Chief of the 4th Army (Light Army) on August 1, 1939 and held this post until August 28, 1940, whereupon Lieutenant General Washizu Jōhei succeeded him. He himself then became Commander-in-Chief of the South China Regional Army on October 5, 1940 , after the previous Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Andō Rikichi had previously been relieved of his post because of his unauthorized order for the 5th Division (Carp Division) to march into French Indochina . He remained Commander in Chief until the dissolution of the South China Regional Army on June 28, 1941. On July 17, 1941, he became Chief of Staff of the China Expeditionary Army (Shina hakengun) and held this position until August 17, 1942.

After his promotion to general on August 17, 1942, Ushiroku Jun was in the further course of the Second World War as the successor to Lieutenant General Yoji Fujii between August 17, 1942 and his replacement by Lieutenant General Iida Shōjirō on February 21, 1944, Supreme Commander of the Central Army District. He then succeeded Lieutenant General Hata Hikosaburō on February 21, 1944, Vice-Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army and remained in this position until April 7, 1944. At the same time, he was a member between March 11 and August 25, 1944 of the Supreme War Council and from March 28 to July 18, 1944 in personal union also General Inspector of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Forces and Head of the Army Aviation Headquarters. Most recently, he took over on August 25, 1944 from Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburō, the post of commander-in-chief of the 3rd Regional Army deployed in Manchukuo (Dai-san hōmengun) . He held this post until the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945. He then fell into Soviet captivity , from which he was only released in December 1956.

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ushiroku is the family name, Jun is the first name.