Takushiro Hattori | |
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| Born | January 2, 1901 Tsuruoka, Yamagata,Empire of Japan |
| Died | April 30, 1960 (aged 59) Japan |
| Allegiance |  Empire of Japan |
| Service |  Imperial Japanese Army |
| Years of service | 1922–1945 |
| Rank |  Colonel |
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Takushiro Hattori (服部 卓四郎,Hattori Takushirō, January 2, 1901 – April 30, 1960) was anImperial Japanese Army officer and government official. DuringWorld War II, he alternately served as the chief of the Army General Staff's Operations Section and Secretary to Prime MinisterHideki Tojo. After the war ended, he served as an adviser on military matters to the postwarJapanese government.
Takushiro Hattori was born on January 2, 1901, inTsuruoka, a city in the Japanese prefecture ofYamagata. Upon completing his education at the Imperial Military Academy in 1922,[1] he enrolled in the Japanese Army War College from which he graduated in 1930. In 1935, he traveled to Africa, where he acted as the Japanese military's observer during theItalian invasion of Ethiopia.[2][3] After returning to Japan, he joined the Army General Staff Office and was placed in charge of mobilization.[4]
By the late 1930s, Hattori was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and became head of theKwantung Army's Operations Section. In that capacity, he served as one of the driving forces behind the events that triggered the unsuccessfulBattle of Khalkhin Gol against theSoviet Union.
Upon his promotion to colonel and chief of the operations section of the Army General Staff in 1941, Hattori played a key role in planning the Japanese conquest of Western territories during the early years of thePacific War. In December 1942, he briefly resigned from that position and became Secretary to the Minister of the Army, Tojo, who was at the same time the Prime Minister.[5] In October 1943, Hattori returned to the Army General Staff to reassume his prior position as chief of operations and planned theOperation Ichigo. He subsequently remained in this position until a conflict with the Army's Military Affairs Bureau resulted in his transfer to a regimental command in China.[6]
Inoccupied Japan after the war, Hattori was associated with the G2 Division, which was responsible for demobilization and for writing the war history ofDouglas MacArthur under Major GeneralCharles A. Willoughby.[7]
After the foundation of theNational Police Reserve, the first postwar military institution in Japan, Hattori became the leading former officer of the so-called "Hattori Group," which attempted to become the general staff of the new force. Hattori was never commissioned into the force or its successor, theJapan Self-Defense Force, but some of his associates, such as ColonelKumao Imoto, served in it.[8]
In 1953, he wroteDai Toa Senso Zenshi (大東亜戦争全史,The Complete History of the Great East Asia War), a large-scale military history of the Pacific War.[9]
In the years after the war, his name was mentioned in CIA documents as a plotter in a 1952 plan to kill Japanese Prime MinisterShigeru Yoshida.[10] His planned assassination attempt was to precede aNational Safety Agencycoup in which former military officers, many of whom had been removed in thepostwar purge, would seize control of the government.[11] The group, which includedMasanobu Tsuji, would then installIchiro Hatoyama orTaketora Ogata as prime minister.[12] The coup allegedly had support fromCharles Willoughby, who was the head of theG-2.[12] Tsuji convinced Hattori to abort the alleged coup attempt because Yoshida belonged to the conservativeLiberal Party, which was then definitively disavowed as the result of a withdrawal of US financial support.[12][11]
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