General Doihara Kenji, defendant, International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Doihara Kenji, General. Born 8 August 1883; executed 23 December 1948. Cadet, Military Academy (May 1903); Second Lieutenant, Infantry (November 1904); First Lieutenant (Dec . 1907); Captain (August 1913); Major (April 1919); Lieutenant Colonel (August 1923); Colonel (July 1927); Major General (April 1932); Lieutenant General (March 1936); Supreme War Councilor (September 1940); General (April 1941); Inspector General Army Air Forces (9 June 1941 — 1 May 1943); Commander, 7th Area Army (Singapore) (March 1944 — April 1945); Inspector General Military Education (7 April 1945 — 25 August 1945); Supreme War Councilor (August 1945). Arrested 21 September 1945; designated war criminal by China and U.K. Charged on forty-nine counts (reduced to ten), found guilty on eight counts; sentenced to death by hanging.