2 September 1966(1966-09-02) (aged 82) Tokyo, Japan
Allegiance
Empire of Japan Republic of China (military adviser)
Service/branch
Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service
1904–1945
Rank
General
Unit
First Infantry Regiment
Commands held
China Expeditionary Army
Northern China Area Army
Eleventh Army
2nd Division
Battles/wars
Russo-Japanese War
World War I
Siege of Tsingtao
Jinan incident
January 28 incident
Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933–1936)
Defense of the Great Wall
Second Sino-Japanese War
Battle of Wuhan
Battle of Nanchang
Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang
Battle of Changsha (1939)
1939–1940 Winter Offensive
Battle of Changsha (1944)
Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
Battle of West Hunan
Pacific War
Chinese Civil War
First Taiwan Strait Crisis
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
Awards
Order of the Sacred Treasure First Class
Order of the Golden Kite First Class
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
Victory Medal
Military Medal of Honor
Other work
military advisor, veteran Association, author
Yasuji Okamura (岡村 寧次, Okamura Yasuji, 15 May 1884 – 2 September 1966) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary Army from November 1944 to the end of World War II, and appointed to surrender all Japanese forces involved in the China Burma India theater. He was tried but found not guilty of any war crimes by the Shanghai War Crimes Tribunal after the war. As one of the Imperial Japanese Army's top China experts, General Okamura spent his entire military career on the Asian mainland.[1]
YasujiOkamura (岡村 寧次, OkamuraYasuji, 15 May 1884 – 2 September 1966) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, commander-in-chief of the China Expeditionary...
Murata (村田 安司, 1896–1966), Japanese animator YasujiOkamura (岡村 寧次, 1884–1966), Japanese general Yasuji Sasaki (佐々木 康二, born 1967), Japanese chef This...
veterans confessed to war crimes committed under the leadership of General YasujiOkamura. The publishers were forced to stop the publication of the book after...
of detailed information gathering and analysis conducted by General YasujiOkamura, who decreed that villages suspected of harboring or abetting the Chinese...
Second and Eleventh Armies to fight in and around Wuhan. Under him, YasujiOkamura commanded five-and-a-half divisions of the Eleventh Army along both...
Japanese troops, and signed the Tanggu Cease-Fire Accord with General YasujiOkamura, who was deputy chief of staff of Kantogun at that time. After that...
Nanchang. On 20 March, the Japanese troops under the direct command of YasujiOkamura launched heavy artillery shelling over Chinese fortifications on the...
7 million casualties occurred during the Three Alls policy. General YasujiOkamura implemented the policy in Hebei and Shandong. Axis forces employed biological...
Jingxing Coal Mine also stopped operating for half a year. When General YasujiOkamura took command of the North China Area Army in the summer 1941, the new...
Tsuyoshi Noda, made famous by the hundred man killing contest. General YasujiOkamura was convicted of war crimes in July 1948 by the Tribunal, but was immediately...
Higashikuni: Military Councilor Jinsaburo Mazaki: Military Councilor YasujiOkamura: Military Councilor Takeo Yasuda: Military Councilor Prince Kan'in Kotohito:...
at 9:00 on September 9, 1945. During the 15-minute ceremony, General YasujiOkamura, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force of the Imperial...
Commander-in-Chief, China Expeditionary Army March 1941 - November 1944 Succeeded by YasujiOkamura Preceded by none Commander-in-Chief, IJA 2nd General Army Apr 1945 –...
Kimura September 9 September 9 Japan All forces in China 1,541,973 YasujiOkamura Morning of September 9 September 9 Japan All forces in Korea south of...
a response to wholesale rape of Chinese women by Japanese soldiers. YasujiOkamura, the chief of staff in Shanghai, ordered the construction of comfort...
Alls Policy) Crimes against humanity (murder of civilians) General YasujiOkamura Authorised in December 1941 to implement a scorched earth policy in...
or sanko sakusen) implemented in May 1942 in north China by general YasujiOkamura. The property loss suffered by the Chinese was valued at 383 billion...
senior military officers called the "Three Crows" (Tetsuzan Nagata, YasujiOkamura and Toshishiro Obata) who wanted to modernize the Japanese military...
leaders He Yingqin Wang Yaowu Tang Enbo Liao Yaoxiang Zhang Lingfu YasujiOkamura Kazuyoshi Sakanishi Strength 110,000 in Hunan 200,000 in total 400 aircraft...
Zhong as Zhang Fang's mother Jie Bing as Li Fukuan Yasuyuki Hirata as YasujiOkamura Kenichi Miura as Jirou Takahashi Alec Su's scenes as T. V. Soong were...
Global Information
Empire of Japan 
Republic of China (military adviser)
Imperial Japanese Army
General