Kanji Ishiwara
Kanji Ishiwara | |
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Ishiwara in 1934 | |
| Born | January 18, 1889 Shōnai, Yamagata, Japan |
| Died | August 15, 1949 (aged 60) Takase, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Years of service | 1909–1941 |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands | 4th Infantry Regiment, 1933–35 Chief of Operations Section, G-1, 1935–37 |
| Battles / wars | Second Sino-Japanese War World War II |
| Awards | Order of the Golden Kite (3rd Class) Order of the Rising Sun (3rd Class) Order of the Sacred Treasure (4th Class) |
| Other work | Professor, Ritsumeikan University, 1941–42 |
Kanji Ishiwara (石原 莞爾, Ishiwara Kanji, 18 January 1889 – 15 August 1949) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He and Seishirō Itagaki were the men primarily responsible for the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931.