10 Facts About Shigeru Sawada

Shigeru Sawada was a career military officer and a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

From August 1931, Shigeru Sawada was commander of the IJA 24th Field Artillery Regiment.

Shigeru Sawada returned to teach at the Staff College from March 1933, and was then assigned as chief-of-staff of the Guards Artillery Division.

Shigeru Sawada was then sent as a military attache to Poland in December 1935, returning to Japan in March 1938.

Shigeru Sawada was promoted to lieutenant general in March 1938.

Shigeru Sawada returned to the General Staff in September 1939, becoming Vice Chief-of-Staff from Wang Jingwei Government.

Shigeru Sawada returned to Japan in October 1942 and retired one month later.

Shigeru Sawada was found guilty by the US Military Commission in Shanghai and was sentenced to five years in prison with hard labor.

The sentence was notably lenient since the commission took into account that Shigeru Sawada had protested the death sentences of the three prisoners who were illegally executed, but was overruled.

Shigeru Sawada was returned to Tokyo's Sugamo Prison to serve his sentence.