Shunroku Hata was a field marshal (gensui) in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was the last surviving Japanese military officer with a marshal's rank. Hata was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948, but was paroled in 1955.
Field Marshal Shunroku Hata serving at Second General Army
Hata (on the left) with his brother before the Russo-Japanese War
Hata (left) with Field Marshal Terauchi Hisaichi in Xuzhou
Hata during his trial
Gensui (Imperial Japanese Army)
Rikugun-gensui , formal rank designations: Gensui-rikugun-taishō was the highest title in the pre-war Imperial Japanese military.
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