General lieutenant Takuro Matsui, Commander of the 5th Division, at the Battle of Singapore
Takurō Matsui (松井 太久郎; Fukuoka Prefecture, 3 December 1887 – 10 June 1969) was a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.
Matsui commanded the Western District Army between 15 July 1938 and 9 March 1940.
He received command of the 5th Japanese Division on 15 October 1940, which fought at that time in China in the Second Sino-Japanese War.[1] On 8 December 1941, his division landed on the beaches of Southern Thailand and fought with success in the Malayan Campaign and the following Battle of Singapore.[2]
On 11 May 1942, he was replaced at the head of the division by Lieutenant General Yamamoto Tsutomi.
On 18 March 1943 he became Chief of Staff of the China Expeditionary Army, a post he would hold until 1 February 1945, when he became commander until the end of the War of the Thirteenth Army, posted in the lower Yangtze River area of east central China.
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