Hideyoshi Obata was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.
10 Facts About Hideyoshi Obata
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Hideyoshi Obata attended military preparatory schools and graduated from the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1911, specializing in cavalry operations.
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From April 1923, Hideyoshi Obata was assigned as a military attache to the United Kingdom and from November 1927 to August 1934 as military attache to British India.
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Hideyoshi Obata was promoted to major general in March 1938, and was reassigned from cavalry to army aviation.
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Hideyoshi Obata was appointed Commandant of the Akeno Army Air School in August 1938.
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Hideyoshi Obata's command was assigned to the Burma front in 1942.
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On 18 February 1944, Hideyoshi Obata was assigned command of the Thirty-First Army, with the IJA 29th Division and IJA 53rd Division in charge of the defense of the Mariana Islands from the approaching Allied forces.
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Hideyoshi Obata was away from his headquarters on Saipan at the time of the American invasion and established his new command post on Guam.
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Hideyoshi Obata committed seppuku on 11 August 1944 in Yigo, Guam, ending Japanese attempts to hold the island.
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Hideyoshi Obata's wife was a daughter of Field Marshal Kawamura Kageaki.