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Kiyotake Kawaguchi

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on 13 September 1942, Kawaguchi's forces were defeated with heavy losses and forced to retreat from the battlefield. Kawaguchi was subsequently relieved of command during the Japanese preparations for another
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in 1942, Kawaguchi objected strenuously to the "revenge killings" of senior Philippine government officials and supreme court justices by Japanese authorities, most notably Japanese Army
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Kawaguchi was relegated to the reserve list in 1943. After recovering from a long illness, he was placed in command of the defenses of
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province. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years imprisonment on November 14, 1949. On July 4, 1953, President
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Kawaguchi and his 35th Infantry Brigade, along with other attached units, were landed as reinforcements on
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Japanese Major General Kiyotake Kawaguchi (center) with friends in an undated photograph
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After the surrender of Japan, Kawaguchi was transferred to the Philippines to face the
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in 1922. He spent much of the 1920s and 1930s in a series of staff positions in the
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pardoned all the remaining Japanese war criminals under Philippine jurisdiction.
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the following month. As commander of Army forces on Cebu after the
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in October 1942 and evacuated from the island and back to Japan.
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Hough, Frank O.; Ludwig, Verle E.; Shaw, Henry I. Jr.
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Kōchi City
Kōchi Prefecture
Empire of Japan
Imperial Japanese Army
Major General
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II
Battle of the Philippines
Guadalcanal campaign
Battle of Edson's Ridge
Battle for Henderson Field
Imperial Japanese Army
World War II

Kōchi Prefecture
Imperial Japanese Army Academy
Army Staff College
North China Area Army
Japan
major general
IJA 35th Infantry Brigade
IJA 18th Division
British Borneo
Miri
Kuching
Brunei
Jesselton
Beaufort
Labuan Island

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