32 Facts About Masanobu Tsuji

Masanobu Tsuji was a Japanese army officer and politician.

Masanobu Tsuji helped plan and lead the final Japanese offensive during the Guadalcanal campaign.

Masanobu Tsuji meticulously planned the mass murders in Singapore and surrounding regions.

Masanobu Tsuji evaded prosecution for Japanese war crimes at the end of the war and hid in Thailand.

Masanobu Tsuji returned to Japan in 1949 and was elected to the Diet as an advocate of renewed militarism.

Masanobu Tsuji was among the most aggressive and influential Japanese militarists.

Masanobu Tsuji was a leading proponent of the concept of gekokujo, by acting without or contrary to authorization.

Masanobu Tsuji incited the 1939 border clash with the Soviet Union and was a vehement advocate of war against the United States.

Masanobu Tsuji received his secondary education at a military academy and later graduated from the War College.

From 1938 to 1939, Masanobu Tsuji was a staff officer in the Kwantung Army in Japanese-occupied Mongolia.

In March 1939, after the Japanese defeat at the hands of the Soviets at Changkufeng, Masanobu Tsuji instigated an aggressive border policy, which triggered the Nomonhan Incident.

Masanobu Tsuji was largely responsible for planning Yamashita's successful landing in Malaya and subsequent campaign against Singapore.

Masanobu Tsuji was then transferred to the staff of General Homma in the Philippines.

Masanobu Tsuji had many captured officials of the Philippines government executed, including by ordering the execution of Filipino Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos and the attempted execution of former Speaker of the House of Representatives Manuel Roxas.

Some other army officials, who had followed Masanobu Tsuji's command, were charged, and two of them were executed.

Homma countermanded many of execution orders that had been pushed through by the Masanobu Tsuji clique, including the execution orders for future Philippine president Manuel Roxas who was the former speaker of the house of representatives at that time.

However, Douglas MacArthur held him responsible for the actions of his subordinates and he was executed while Masanobu Tsuji was on the run.

In 1932, Masanobu Tsuji saw action in China, and subsequently travelled as far as Sinkiang.

However, Masanobu Tsuji was an influential advocate of the attack on the United States.

Masanobu Tsuji was then assigned to the Operations Section of the General Staff, where he became a strong advocate of war with the United States and Britain.

Masanobu Tsuji planned the Japanese overland attack in New Guinea, via the Kokoda Trail.

Masanobu Tsuji was sent to the Japanese HQ in Nanking, which was largely inactive, for the next year.

In mid-1944, Masanobu Tsuji was sent to Burma, where Japanese forces had been repulsed at Imphal.

Masanobu Tsuji was assigned to the 33rd Army, which faced the Chinese in northeastern Burma.

Masanobu Tsuji was an energetic and efficient planner, if notoriously arrogant, and once helped quell panic in the ranks by ostentatiously having a bath under fire in the front lines.

Masanobu Tsuji visited Vietnam, which was in disorder with the Viet Minh resisting the re-establishment of French rule.

In China, Masanobu Tsuji was both a prisoner and an employee of Chinese intelligence.

Masanobu Tsuji began publishing books and articles about his war experiences, including an account of the Japanese victory in Malaya.

Masanobu Tsuji wrote of his years in hiding in Senko Sanzenri "3,000 li in hiding", which became a best seller.

Masanobu Tsuji was elected to the Diet in 1952, and re-elected twice.

Additionally, the files contain information that Hattori had allegedly planned a coup to overthrow the Japanese government in 1952 that involved the assassination of Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and replacing him with Ichiro Hatoyama of the DPJ, but Masanobu Tsuji prevented the coup by persuading the group that the real enemies were not conservatives like Yoshida but the Socialist Party.

Masanobu Tsuji was considered to be still alive as of 8 August 1962 on the basis of handwriting analysis conducted on the writing on an envelope that was brought on 24 August 1962.