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Place of Birth: Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
About Kenji Doihara
- Kenji Doihara (??? ??, Doihara Kenji, 8 August 1883 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese army officer.
- As a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, he was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for which he earned the nickname "Lawrence of Manchuria," a reference to Lawrence of Arabia.
- However, according to Jamie Bisher, the flattering sobriquet was rather misapplied, as that Colonel T.E.
- Lawrence had fought to liberate, not to oppress people.
- In a war fiction by Roger J.
- Spiller, Lieutenant-General Ishiwara Kanji, his military chief in Manchuria, said that his heavy addiction to opium contributed to his unreliability as an army officer.As a leading intelligence officer, he played a key role to the Japanese machinations that led to the occupation of large parts of China, the destabilization of the country, and the disintegration of the traditional structure of Chinese society to diminish reaction to the Japanese plans by using highly-unconventional methods.
- He became the mastermind of the Manchurian drug trade and the real boss and sponsor behind every kind of gang and underworld activity in China. After the end of World War II, he was prosecuted for war crimes in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
- He was found guilty, sentenced to death, and hanged in December 1948.
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