Gen Sugiyama
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Gen Sugiyama (1880-1945) was a Japanese soldier and politician. He was born in Kokura City, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Military career
2dLt (Infantry), June 1901; graduated from War College, November 1910; Army General Staff, December 1910; official duty, Philippines, February 1912; official duty, Singapore, October 1912; Major, August 1913; Military Attache India, February 1915; LtCol, August 1917; Commander, 2d Air Battalion, December 1918; Colonel, June 1921; Chief, Army Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, War Ministry. August 1923; Chief, Supply Bureau, Army Aeronautical Department (MajGen), May 1925; Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, August 1928; Acting Vice-Minister of war, June 1930; Vice-Minister of War (LtGen), August 1930; 12th Division Commander, February 1932.
Political career
He was a nationalist politician with a military alignment. He started in the Toseiha faction, led by Kazushige Ugaki, with Koiso Kuniaki, Yoshijiro Umezu, Tetsuzan Nagata, and Hideki Tojo. They opposed the radical Kodaha faction under Sadao Araki. Later both factions combined in the Imperial Way Faction movement, and he became one of its theoretical leaders.
He was: Chief, Army Aeronautical Department, March 1933; Deputy Chief of Army General Staff-concurrently Military Councillor, August 1936; General, November 1936; War Minister, February 1937; Military Councillor, June 1938; Commanding General, North China Area Army, December 1938; concurrently Commanding General, Mongolia Garrison Army, August 1939; Military Councillor, September 1939; Chief of Army General Staff, October 1940; Field Marshal, June 1943; Inspector General of Military Training, February 1944; War Minister, July 1944; Commander-in-Chief, First General Army, April 1945.
Another political works if War Ministry, Vice-Ministry of War and diplomatic service in Philippines, Singapur, and India, between stays commanding the Mongolia Garrison Army and Commander-in-Chief of First General Army also ideological leader in Kodoha government party in wartime.
He was a nationalist of strong convictions. He and his wife committed suicide in August 1945.
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