Who are the main characters in the September 18th Incident?
Planners: Itagaki Seishiro, Ishihara Kanji, executors: Honjo Shige, Kawamoto Matomori, Chinese resistance: Huang Xiansheng.
1. Itagaki Seishiro
Itagaki Seishiro (Japanese: いたがきせいしろう, / English: Seishirō Itagaki; January 21, 1885 - December 23, 1948), Japan General of the Army, the courage of Itagaki, who is also known as the wisdom of Ishihara in the Japanese army, is an important general in the Showa era of Japan, and one of the Class A war criminals of World War II. ?
In 1931, he and Ishihara Kanji jointly planned the "September 18th" incident. Since the Northeastern Army followed a policy of non-resistance and evacuated the Northeast without firing a single shot, they challenged the 200,000 Northeastern Army with 10,000 people. In 1937, he defeated more than 30 Chinese divisions with half a division and captured Shanxi.
In June 1938, he was appointed Minister of War. Advocated the Three Kingdoms Alliance. In September 1939, he was appointed chief of general staff of the China Expeditionary Force. Presided over the work of inducing surrender to China. In 1943, he was appointed as the Supreme Military Councilor. In 1945, he fought against the British and Dutch troops in Malaysia and Singapore until Japan was defeated.
On December 23, 1948, he was sentenced to hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
2. Ishihara Kanji
Ishihara Kanji (いしはらかんじ, January 18, 1889 - August 15, 1949), was born in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan , an army lieutenant general during the Japanese Empire.
The main planner of the September 18th Incident, the planner and theorist of the Japanese invasion strategy. Japanese thinker, politician, and advocate of militarism. He is known as Japan's number one military strategist.
3. Honjo Shige
Honjo Shige (ほんじょう しげる, 1876.5.10-1945.11.20), a native of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, Army General (1933.4). The commander of the Kwantung Army who ordered the occupation of the three eastern provinces during the September 18th Incident.
During the February 26 Incident, he was dismissed from his post by Emperor Showa for interceding for the rebels. When Japan was defeated, he committed suicide in fear of being a Class A war criminal.
4. Kawamoto Matomori
Kawamoto Matemori, Lieutenant Kawamoto Matemori, captain of the Ryutiao Lake detachment of the Japanese Kwantung Army Railway Garrison, served as the captain of the Ryutiao Lake during the "September 18th Incident" Detachment captain.
This Kwantung Army lieutenant was proficient in blasting technology and blew up a section of the South Manchuria Railway during the September 18th Incident. It became the trigger of the "September 18th Incident".
5. Huang Xiansheng
Huang Xiansheng (December 18, 1896 - November 27, 1949), Manchu, native of Xiuyan, Liaoning Province, revolutionary martyr. He fired the first anti-Japanese shot in Shenyang and was one of the founders of the Northeast Volunteer Army.
On the eve of the September 18th Incident in 1931, he worked hard to collect intelligence, report it to superiors, and ask for countermeasures. However, due to Zhang Xueliang's irresistible order, he could not do anything.
After the September 18th Incident broke out, he led all branches and teams of the Public Security Bureau to fight tenaciously against the Japanese army. He did not order the withdrawal from Shenyang until he was truly unable to resist anymore.
Afterwards, he used the province's police force as the backbone to organize a volunteer army to fight against Japan: he moved to southern Liaoning and western Liaoning to combat the arrogance of the Japanese and puppet troops.
Secretly joined the Communist Party of China in August 1936. After the Xi'an Incident, he was detained by the Nationalist Government and killed in Baigongguan Prison in Chongqing on November 27, 1949.
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