Military Leaders
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Masaki Honda
Masaki Honda was born in Japan in 1889. Honda joined the Japanese army in 1940. Honda was given control of the 8th division. This was followed by the post as head of the Military Education Branch Armoured Department (1941-43) and the 20th Army (1943-44). Honda was latter put in charge of the 33th army in Burma in April of 1944. In January 1945, Honda was ordered to hold a north-south line from Lashio to Mandalay. Honda was under instruction to stop General Joseph Stilwell and the US-Chinese troops from reopening the Burma Road. He was forced to retreat and the British forces later captured him on May 3, 1945. He died in 1964
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Mineichi KogaMineichi Koga was born in Japan in 1885. He joined the Japanese Navy and served as a naval attaché in Paris before being given command of the Yokosuka Naval Station. Koga took part in both Pearl Harbor and capture of Hong Kong. In April 1943, Admiral Kogo replaced Isoruku Yamamoto as commander in chief of the Combined Fleet. He was unable to halt the decline in the country's fortunes and presided over the start of Japanese withdrawals from the Gilbert Islands and the Philippines. He was killed in March of 1944 in a plane crash.
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Akira Muto
Akira Muto was born in Japan in 1883. He joined the Japanese Army and in 1913 he joined the General High Staff. He also served under Fumimaro Kondoye as head of the Military Affairs Bureau. Promoted to major general Muto worked as a military adviser to Hideki Tojo. He was placed in charge of the 2nd Imperial Guards Division in Sumatra. He was transferred to the Philippines in October where he was appointed chief of staff to General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
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