Okamura Ninji was the fourth commander of the Japanese North China Front, who served from July 7, 1941 to August 25, 1944, and was notorious for implementing the "Three Light Policy", when he served as his chief of staff, namely Tanabe Moritake, Anda 23, and Ōjōdo Sanji, it is worth mentioning that these three were all ranks of lieutenant generals, of which Tanabe Moritake and Anda 23, I have written about this article, this article features Ōjōdo Sanji, among the seven people who served as chiefs of staff of the North China Front, Sanji Ojoto is a relatively unknown person to the public, and some people have searched the whole Network and have not found a photo of him.
Ōjō todo Sanji
Born on April 28, 1891, Michiharu Ojodo graduated from the 25th Infantry Section of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in December 1913, was admitted to the 36th Class of the Army Academy in December 1921, and was a classmate of Miyazaki Shigezaburo, Arisumi Seizo, Haruki Isayama, Kasumi Nobori, Kawamura Samro, and Shigeji Baiyin, and on November 29, 1924, he received a "superior" grade and entered the "Sabre Group" of that period.
On July 1, 1933, Ayutoto Sanji was transferred to the Army Province as the head of the Chinese squad of the Military Affairs Bureau's Military Affairs Division, and it was Hashimoto Qun who served as the head of the Military Affairs Division at that time, and the director of the Military Affairs Bureau was Nagata Tetsuyama, known as the "first brain of the Japanese Army". After the 26 Incident, he was transferred to the headquarters of the Third Division, assisting the division commander, Lieutenant General Masaki Ito, who had just returned from the Kwantung Army on duty.
"Twenty-two Incidents"
On January 21, 1937, Ōjōdo Sanji was sent to China to serve as a military attaché stationed in Nanjing, and after the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident", the Japanese base camp continued to expand the situation in North China, successively drawing combat divisions and regiments from the Kwantung Army, the Korean Army and the Japanese mainland, independent mixed brigades and other units to invade North China, and the strategic position of the Chinese Garrison Army stationed in North China was prominent, and it was urgent to enrich and strengthen the strength and command capabilities.
It was in this context that At the invitation of his senior superior, hashimoto Qun, then chief of staff of the Chinese Garrison, was transferred from Nanjing to Tianjin on August 2, 1937, to serve as an operational staff officer of the Headquarters of the Chinese Garrison, assisting Hashimoto in formulating operational plans and jointly assisting the commander, Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki, in commanding the operation.
Seiji Katsuki
On August 31, 1937, the Japanese army headquarters abolished the Chinese garrison army structure, and at the same time formed the North China Front, with General Shouichi Terauchi as commander, Major General Naosaburo Okabe as chief of staff, and Former Commander of the Infantry Brigade of the Chinese Garrison Army, Masazo Kawabe, as deputy chief of staff, and Ayutodo Sanji was transferred to Beiping on August 26 to participate in the preparatory work, and served as the second section chief of the North China Front Headquarters, responsible for formulating battle plans and operational commands, and the headquarters was located at the former site of the government of Duan Qirui in Beiping Iron Lion Hutong.
On July 15, 1938, Michiharu Ayutoto was transferred to the Japanese Army in Korea as the commander of the 76th Infantry Regiment of the 38th Brigade of the 19th Division, which was fighting the Soviets in the Zhanggufeng area, a battle that resulted in the loss of nearly 20% of the strength of the Japanese 19th Division.
Zhang Gufeng Incident
On March 9, 1939, Michiharu Ōjōdo was promoted to major general of the Army and was transferred to the Central China Dispatch Army, succeeding Kanichiro Ueno as the commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Division, which at this time belonged to the operational sequence of Okamura Ninji's Eleventh Army, which had just participated in the Battle of Wuhan under the leadership of Fujita's division commander and was stationed in the Xinyang area near Wuhan, serving as a garrison and combat mission in the area.
On October 26, 1939, the commander of the Japanese Third Division changed hands and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Masataka Yamawaki, a former deputy officer of the Army, whose first battle at the beginning of his tenure was to lead the Third Division to participate in the Battle of Zaoyi, and at this time the division was subordinate to the battle sequence of the Eleventh Army of Yuanbu and Ichiro, and the Battle of Zaoyi was also a large-scale operation launched by the Japanese army against the Fifth Theater after China and Japan entered the stalemate stage, which led to the death of General Zhang Zizhong, commander-in-chief of the Thirty-third Army, and ended with the Japanese occupation of Yichang. But it also paid the price of more than 11,000 casualties.
Japanese chiefs who studied combat on the front lines
On August 1, 1940, Ayutoto Sanji was transferred back to Japan to serve as the Minister of Merit Investigation of the Ministry of the Army, a department that verified and evaluated the merits of soldiers, and it was Hideki Tojo who was the Minister of War at this time, which can be determined that Ayutodo Sanji was also one of Hideki Tojo's cronies, and was promoted to lieutenant general on November 6, 1941, and after the departure of Ayutodo Sanji, the head of the Personnel Bureau of the Army Province, Kyoji Tominaga, concurrently served as the director of the Merit Investigation Department.
On March 2, 1942, Michiharu Ogito was transferred to the regimental commander of the 22nd Japanese Division, and his chief of staff was Masao Yamawaki, a three-regiment division regiment headed by Major General Yoshikazu Harada as the 22nd Infantry Regiment, with the 84th Infantry Regiment, the 85th Infantry Regiment, the 86th Infantry Regiment, and the 52nd Field Artillery Regiment, which was formed on April 4, 1938 in Utsunomiya, Japan.
The Japanese forces attacking quzhou city
When Ayutodo Sanji took office, the Twenty-second Division was subordinate to the combat sequence of Shigeru Sawada's Thirteenth Army, and during his tenure he led the Twenty-second Division to participate in the "Battle of Zhejiang", and on April 18, 1942, the 16 special flight squadrons of 16 B25 medium bombers led by Doolittle bombed Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and other places, and landed safely at Quzhou Airport in Zhejiang Province after completing the bombing mission.
In order to prevent the Japanese mainland from being bombed by US planes again, the Japanese base camp planned the "Battle of Zhejiang and Gansu", aiming to destroy the military airfields of the Chinese army in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, and in an attempt to open up the "Zhejiang-Gansu Railway" and plunder the strategic materials in this area.
In order to prevent the Chinese from repairing the airfield again in the future, the Japanese army spread plague, anthrax, cholera, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever and other bacteria on a large scale during the evacuation, which was the bacteriological warfare carried out by the infamous Ishii Shiro, which was assessed from the personnel, equipment, bacterial species and attack areas used, which was the largest in human history.
Japanese troops wearing gas masks
Due to the lack of medical knowledge and necessary protective measures, Chinese soldiers and local people were deeply affected, the number of victims reached more than 250,000, even the Japanese army itself was not spared, the number of deaths and deaths suddenly increased by 5-6 times, reaching more than 10,000 people, although the Japanese troops participating in the war had been immunized beforehand.
On November 9, 1942, Ōjōdo Sanji succeeded Anda 23 as chief of staff of the North China Front, assisted the commander General Okamura Ninji, and together with Okamura Ninji carried out policies such as "clearing the countryside", "encroaching", and "sweeping" in north China, especially the crazy "sweeping" of the anti-Japanese base areas led by the Communist Party, implementing an extremely brutal "three lights" policy of burning, killing, and robbing the light, and conniving at the officers and men under his command to wantonly burn and loot.
Japanese troops sweeping in North China
In August 1944, after Okamura Ninji was transferred to the commander of the Sixth Front of the Japanese Army, Ōjō Do Sanji continued to assist the new commander, General Naosaburo Okabe, and on October 14 of the same year, he was transferred back to Tokyo to succeed Lieutenant General Shigeru Ōki as the commander-in-chief of the Army Gendarmerie, the Japanese military police this branch was established in 1881, born out of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Agency, the earliest group of gendarmes in the Japanese Army, all composed of police, reached its peak in Shizuichi Tanaka's first term, and the peak period was more than 30,000 people. The Japanese gendarmes are notoriously famous, and the image of the Japanese gendarmes often appears in some anti-Japanese film and television dramas, all of which are cruel and evil demons, which makes people very frightened and deeply resentful.
The day after Emperor Hirohito issued the Edict of the End of the War, Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki announced the resignation of the Cabinet Chief, and on the recommendation of Minister Koichi Kido, King Minoru Higashihisa was put on the foreground and became the 43rd Prime Minister of Japan on August 17, and on August 20, he elected Honji Imura to succeed Miharu Ogito as commander-in-chief of the gendarmerie to suppress officers at all levels who disobeyed the emperor's order to surrender.
Group photo of the cabinet of King Minoru higashihisa
Miharu Ogito was transferred to the Headquarters of the Eastern Military District to assist the commander, Shizuichi Tanaka, in charge of security and security in the Tokyo area and suppressed the officers and soldiers who tried to rebel, but the two cooperated for only four days, and Tanaka Shizuichi committed suicide by raising a gun in his office on August 24, and Ayutodo Sanji had to perform his duties on his behalf.
Due to the efficient operation of the cabinet of King Minoru Higashihisa, more than 7 million Japanese naval and army troops were quickly and smoothly disarmed, and these officers and soldiers were demobilized back to their hometowns, while at the same time greeting the allied military occupation of Japan, completing all the legal procedures and procedures for surrendering to the Allies, and Ayutodo Sanji also ended his historical mission and was transferred to the reserve on December 1, 1945.
Ayutoto Sanji's post-war experience is unknown, and he eventually died on March 23, 1962, and during his military career, he was awarded a gold medal of the second class, and the gold content of this golden eagle medal was not low.