Heitarō Kimura

Heitarō Kimura

September 28, 1888 – December 23, 1948

Heitaro Kimura was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He served as Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army in Manchukuo from 1940 to 1941 and as Vice Minister of War under Hideki Tojo from 1941, assisting with strategy in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War. After World War II he was convicted of war crimes and executed by hanging in 1948.

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