People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Citizenship: Japan
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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- Sadao Araki 荒木貞夫 A militarist leader of Japan's Imperial Way faction
- Otozō Yamada 山田乙三 The Imperial Army's final Kwantung Army commander
- Yoshijirō Umezu 梅津美治郎 The army chief caught between imperial command and surrender
- Isoroku Yamamoto 山本五十六 The admiral who feared war with America yet designed Pearl Harbor
- Hideki Tojo 東條英機 A soldier-statesman who steered imperial Japan from northern ambitions toward southern expansion and war
- Michitarō Komatsubara 小松原道太郎 Imperial Japanese general defeated at Khalkhin Gol
- Seishirō Itagaki 板垣征四郎 The army strategist who turned a railway pretext into the conquest of Manchuria
- Mitsuru Ushijima 牛島満 Japanese general who directed Okinawa's war of attrition
- Kanji Ishiwara 石原莞爾 The theorist who designed Japan's Manchurian expansion
- Tadamichi Kuribayashi 栗林忠道 The Iwo Jima commander who understood American power
- Masanobu Tsuji 辻政信 The Kwantung Army staff officer whose Border Defense Guide sparked the Nomonhan Incident