Toshishiro Obata was a "Russian master" in the Japanese Army, who was once known as the "Miwa U" of the Japanese Army together with Nagata Tetsuyama and Okamura Ninji, and was a very important army elite of Emperor Hirohito, and the last military position in his military career was the principal of the Japanese Army University, and because he was a backbone figure in the "Imperial Road School", he was in the "Second Army School". After the 26 Incident, he was purged, put into the reserve and terminated his military career, and it is worth mentioning that this person's military career has no intersection with China, which is rare among senior generals of the Japanese army.
Toshiro Obata
Toshiro Obata (1885-1947) was a native of Kochi Prefecture, Japan, born into an aristocratic family, studied at Kyoto Prefectural Junior High School, was influenced by militarism and aspired to join the army, attended the Osaka Army Local Infant School and the Army Central Kindergarten School, graduated from the 16th Infantry Division of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in October 1904, and studied with Nagata Tetsuyama, Ninji Okamura, Kenji Doihara, Seishiro Itagaki, Rikichi Ando, Ryosuke Isoya, Kamezo Otaka, Takaaki Takaaki, and others. During his time at the school, he was known as the "Three Feathers" of the Japanese Army with Nagata Tetsuyama and Okamura Ningji, and after graduation, he was assigned to serve in the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the Guards Division, and was promoted to second lieutenant at the end of the year.
Japanese Army "Three Feathered Birds"
On December 25, 1908, Toshishiro Obata was admitted to the 23rd class of the Army Academy with the rank of lieutenant, and became a classmate of Nagata Tetsuyama, Rennuma Fan, Umezu Mijiro, Maeda Toshio, Fumizaburo Kawagishi, Shigeharu Suematsu, Yoshio Shinozuka, and Sakamoto Ushimato, and on November 29, 1911, graduated with honors, and became the "saber group" of the period with Umeda Mijiro, Nagata Tetsuyama, Maeda Toshio, and Yoshio Shinozuka, and was given a saber by emperor Meiji.
Lu Da "Sabre Group"
After graduating from Lu University, Toshishiro Obata was assigned to serve in the 49th Infantry Regiment of the First Division, promoted to lieutenant in 1913 and transferred to the General Staff Headquarters, in 1915 he was sent to Russia, and during World War I, he went to Europe as a military attaché to observe the war, and then served in the Army Province and the General Staff Headquarters, and in 1920 he was again assigned to the Japanese legation in Russia, thus becoming the "Russian General" in the Japanese Army.
In October 1921, the Crown Prince of Japan, Hirohito, accompanied by Prince Zaihito of The temple, went to Europe to investigate, because his father, Emperor Taisho, was already terminally ill and unable to manage the government, Hirohito had just turned 20 years old and had already begun to regency, and Hirohito, who had just entered the political arena, was eager to cultivate his own henchmen.
Crown Prince Hirohito travels to Europe
At that time, Toshishiro Obata was a military attaché stationed in Russia, Nagata Tetsuyama was a military attaché in Switzerland, and Okamura Ninji was a member of the General Staff Headquarters, and the three of them came from all over the place to gather, and the military attaché in Germany, Hideki Tojo, also came from Berlin, and everyone agreed to assist the regent Prince Hirohito and do a good job for the Empire of Japan.
After returning from Moscow in 1922, Toshishiro Obata returned to the General Staff Headquarters again, and was promoted to Army Nakasa the following year, during which time he served as a military instructor at the Army University, in 1926 he was transferred back to the General Staff Headquarters, served as the chief of the Operations Section in the First Department (Operations Department), and a year later was promoted to Army Daisaku and served as the commander of the 10th Infantry Regiment of the 33rd Infantry Brigade regiment of the 10th Division.
After the wheel of history entered the 1930s, Toshishiro Obata was transferred to the head of the research department of the Army Infantry School, on August 1, 1931, he was transferred to the senior instructor of the Army University, on February 10 of the following year, he was again appointed as the chief of the first combat section of the General Staff Headquarters, and two months later he was promoted to major general of the army and promoted to the third director of the General Staff Headquarters, during which he was close to the Minister of War Araki Sadao, because both of them were "Russian", and their world outlook and political tendencies were similar, thus becoming the backbone of the "Imperial Taoist Faction". He also broke with his classmate and friend Nagata Tetsuyama in terms of political orientation.
Group photo of instructors at the Army University
On August 1, 1933, Toshishiro Obata was transferred to the 1st Brigade Commander of the Guards Division, and from graduating from the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School to serving in the Guards Division, to returning to the Guards Division as a brigade commander, a period of nearly 30 years, on March 5, 1934, he was transferred to the Army University, which was similar to the provost, responsible for the teaching and management of the school, and a year later succeeded Sugiyama Moto as the principal of the Army University, presided over the formulation of the "Japanese Army Military Training Outline", especially the study of defensive operations. He was promoted to lieutenant general on 7 March 1936.
"II. After the 26 Incident, Terauchi Shouichi became minister of war, adhering to Emperor Hirohito's will to rectify the army with an "iron fist" and taking sole control of the army's personnel transfer power, the "control faction" thus controlled the Japanese army, and almost all the "Imperial Road" generals were purged, and Toshiro Obata was no exception, and was put into the reserve on August 1, 1936.
Martial law troops were under martial law during the "226 Incident"
After the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident", Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China, Toshishiro Obata was transferred to the 14th Division regiment to be the commander of the remaining division, in October 1939 for health reasons to be lifted, was again put into the reserve, and was completely terminated in the military career, his classmate and friend Okamura Ningji in China can be said to be prosperous, holding a variety of important military positions, Okamura Ningji has invited him to re-emerge from the mountains several times to help himself, but all of them were rejected by Toshishiro Obata.
The day after Japan's unconditional surrender, Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki announced the resignation of the Cabinet General, and on the recommendation of Minister koichi Kido, King Minoru Higashihisa was put in the forefront and became the 43rd Prime Minister of Japan on August 17, Andoshiro Obata was invited to serve as Minister of State, helping King Minoru Higashihisa to quickly and smoothly disarm more than 7 million Japanese naval and army troops and demobilize these soldiers back to their hometowns, while welcoming the Allied military occupation of Japan and completing all the legal procedures and formalities for surrendering to the Allies.
Group photo of the cabinet of King Minoru higashihisa
On September 3, 1945, the Headquarters of the Allied Forces in Japan held a Japanese surrender ceremony aboard the US battleship "Missouri", and the Japanese government assigned Aoi Shigemitsu to sign on behalf of the Japanese government, and was signed by the chief of staff, General Umezu Mijiro, on behalf of the Japanese military, but Umezu Mijiro was reluctant to attend the surrender ceremony, and Toshishiro Obata scolded his old classmate of LuDa, "If Chief of Staff Umezu is not willing to go, I can go as a representative of the army." As a result, Umezu Mijiro was forced to board the battleship USS Missouri.
Umezu Yoshijiro signed the surrender document
The cabinet of King Minoru Higashihisa changed the slogan of "100 million jade fragments" to "100 million confessions" to "wash away" Emperor Hirohito's war responsibilities, and successfully directed the responsibility for the war to Hideki Tojo, who "backed the pot" for Emperor Hirohito's war responsibilities, but eventually resigned on October 9 due to many conflicts with the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces in Japan, and only served as Japanese Prime Minister for 54 days, and Toshishiro Obata also resigned on October 15, which can be said to be a retreat with King Minoru higashihisa.
Toshiro Obata died on January 10, 1947, at the age of 62, the specific cause of death is unknown, his wife is the daughter of Motoda Zhao, the 24th Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, and his brother-in-law Funa Tanaka is the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, the former Japanese Army "Three Feather u", Nagata Tetsuyama died of death, only Okamura Ningji died, and the Japanese "three feather u" in Chinese means "three masters".