Seishirō Itagaki
January 21, 1885 – December 23, 1948
General Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948) was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and as War Minister from 1938 to 1939. He was a main conspirator behind the Mukden Incident and held chief of staff posts in the Kwantung Army and China Expeditionary Army during the early Second Sino-Japanese War. After the war he was convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and executed in 1948.
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