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Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th Japanese Minister of War (died 1962)
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Shunroku Hata
Japanese military officer and war criminal (1879–1962)
Shunroku Hata was a field marshal (gensui) in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was the last surviving Japanese military officer with a marshal's rank. Hata was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948, but was paroled in 1955.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Former Japanese government ministry (1872–1945)
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