| 词条 | Mitsuru Ushijima |
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|name=Mitsuru Ushijima |native_name=牛島 満 |native_name_lang=jpn |birth_date= {{birth date|1887|07|31}} |death_date= {{Death date and age|1945|06|22|1887|07|31}} |birth_place= Kagoshima, Japan |death_place= Okinawa, Japan |image=Mitsuru Ushijima.jpg |image_size=200 |caption=General Mitsuru Ushijima |allegiance={{flag|Empire of Japan}} |branch={{army|Empire of Japan}} |serviceyears=1908 – 1945 |rank=General(posthumous) |commands={{plainlist|
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}} |family= |laterwork= }}{{nihongo|Mitsuru Ushijima|牛島 満|Ushijima Mitsuru|extra=31 July 1887 – 22 June 1945[1]}} was a Japanese general who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. He was the commanding general of the 32nd Army, which fought in the Battle of Okinawa during the final stages of the war. Ushijima's troops were defeated, and at the end of the battle he committed suicide. BiographyUshijima was a native of Kagoshima city in Kagoshima prefecture on the island of Kyūshū in southern Japan. He graduated from the 20th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1908 and of the 28th class of the Army Staff College in 1916. Soon after graduation, he was assigned to the Japanese Expeditionary Force based at Vladivostok during the Siberian Intervention against Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War.{{fact|date=April 2018}} From 1933 to 1936, Ushijima served in administrative postings within the War Ministry. He was appointed commander of the IJA 1st Infantry Regiment from 1936 to 1937.[2] With the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ushijima was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the IJA 36th Infantry Brigade. He was recalled to Japan in 1938 to become Commandant of the Toyama Army Infantry School. In 1939, he was promoted to lieutenant general and again given a field command as general officer commanding the IJA 11th Division in central China, participating in many battles in China and Burma.{{fact|date=April 2018}} Ushijima returned to Japan in 1941, serving a year as the Commandant of the Non-commissioned Officers Academy. From 1942 to 1944, he was Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy.{{fact|date=April 2018}} As the war situation continued to deteriorate for the Japanese in the Pacific War, Ushijima was sent to Okinawa to take command of the newly formed 120,000 man 32nd Army, charged with the defense of the Ryukyu Islands against American invasion. The 32nd Army consisted of the IJA 9th Division, IJA 24th Division, and the IJA 62nd Division, and the 44th Independent Brigade. The 9th Division was transferred to Taiwan prior to the American invasion. Ushijima commanded all Japanese forces in the southern portion of the Okinawa main island from his headquarters in Shuri Castle in Naha. He led a skillful defense of the island despite disagreements between his second in command, General Isamu Cho, and his chief of staff, Colonel Hiromichi Yahara.{{fact|date=April 2018}} After an offensive action urged by Cho led to a near massacre of the attacking Japanese troops by superior American firepower, Ushijima adopted the defensive attrition tactics urged by Yahara. After the turning of the Shuri Line by the American forces, he led a successful withdrawal of his troops to the extreme south of the island. This defensive line did not meet with the same success, and became a fragmented grouping of isolated defensive positions. Ushijima and Cho retreated to Hill 89 at the south coast. The command and control of the remnants of the 32nd Army soon quickly deteriorated as communication with the last defensive positions was cut. Record numbers of Japanese prisoners surrendered; many were Okinawan volunteers or conscripts.{{fact|date=April 2018}} Ushijima refused a personal plea from the American General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. to surrender. Instead, hearing the sounds of the systematic destruction of positions nearby on Hill 89, Ushijima and General Cho committed ritual suicide, or seppuku, disemboweling himself with a sacred knife just before one of his adjutants decapitated him with a saber.[3] Yahara was the most senior officer captured by American forces, and the most senior to survive the battle. Yahara had asked Ushijima for permission to commit suicide, but the general refused his request, saying, "If you die there will be no one left who knows the truth about the battle of Okinawa. Bear the temporary shame but endure it. This is an order from your army commander."[4] Yahara later authored a book entitled The Battle for Okinawa, describing Ushijima's last moments.{{fact|date=April 2018}} The bodies of Ushijima, and his chief of staff, Lieut. Gen. Isamu Cho, were buried under U.S. military auspices on 27 June 1945 near the cave where they died in the last hours of fighting on Okinawa. "The bodies of the two Japanese generals were lowered into graves almost above their cave headquarters which was sealed during the American flag service."[5] Ushijima was described as a humane man who discouraged his senior officers from striking his subordinates, as was their right in the Imperial Japanese Army, and disliked displays of anger because he considered it a base emotion. References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5232.htm |title=The War: Okinawa |publisher=PBS |accessdate=2009-09-09}} 2. ^Ammenthorp, The Generals of World War II 3. ^Rothman, Lily (June 22, 2015). "The Gory Way Japanese Generals Ended Their Battle on Okinawa". Time. 4. ^John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945, Random House, 1970, p. 723 5. ^Dopking, Al, "Jap Officers Buried By U. S. Forces", Florence Morning News, Florence, South Carolina, Thursday 28 June 1945, Volume XXII, Number 455, page 1. Bibliography
| last = Fuller | first = Richard | year = 1992 | title = Shokan: Hirohito's Samurai | publisher = Arms and Armor | location = London | isbn = 1-85409-151-4 }}
| last = Hayashi | first = Saburo |author2=Cox, Alvin D | year = 1959 | title = Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War | publisher = The Marine Corps Association. | location = Quantico, VA | id = }}
| last = Toland | first = John | authorlink = John Toland (author) | year = 1970 | chapter = | title = The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 | publisher = Random House | location = | isbn = 0-8129-6858-1 }}
| last = Yahara | first = Hiromichi | authorlink = |author2=Gibney, Frank B. |authorlink2=Frank Gibney | year = 1995 | chapter = | title = The Battle for Okinawa | publisher = John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | location = | isbn = 0-471-18080-7 }} External links
| last = Ammenthorp | first = Steen | url = http://www.generals.dk/general/Ushijima/Mitsuru/Japan.html | title = Ushijima Mitsuru, General | work = The Generals of World War II }}
| last = Budge | first = Kent | url = http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/index.htm | title = Ushijima, Mitsuru | work = Pacific War Online Encyclopedia }}
| last = Chen | first = Peter | url = http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=306&list=Ground | title = Ushijima, Mitsuru | work = WW2 Database }}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ushijima, Mitsuru}} 10 : Japanese generals|Japanese military personnel of World War II|Japanese military personnel who committed suicide|Battle of Okinawa|People from Kagoshima|Seppuku from Meiji period to present|1887 births|1945 deaths|Suicides by sharp instrument in Japan|Male suicides |
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