General Umezu Yoshihiro, defendant, International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Born 4 January 1882; died 8 January 1949. Graduated Military Academy (March 1904); Second Lieutenant (March 1904); First Lieutenant (June 1905); Captain (March 1912); Major (February 1913); Military Attache, Japanese Legation in Switzerland (November 1919); Lieutenant Colonel (February 1922); Colonel (December 1924); Instructor, Army Staff College (April 1927); Major General (August 1930); Commander, China Garrison Army (March 1934 — August 1935); Lieutenant General (August 1934); Vice Army Minister (23 March 1936 — 30 May 1933); Commander, Kwantung Army (September 1939 — July 1944); General (August 1940); Chief, Army General Staff (22 July 1944 — 15 November 1945); Supreme War Councilor (October 1945); Delegate Plenipotentiary to Supreme Commander Allied Powers (2 September 1945). Arrested 28 April 1946; designated war criminal by U.S., U.K., and China. Charged on thirty-nine counts (reduced to eight), found guilty on five counts; sentenced to life imprisonment, died while in prison.