Lieutenant General Yoshio Ishino, a general of the Japanese invasion of China, whose highest military rank was the commander of the only division of the 229th Division of the Japanese Army, participated in the "Huanggutun Incident", and then carried out a series of war crimes in China as a military attache stationed in Hong Kong, commander of the 215th Infantry Wing of the 33rd Division, chief of staff of the 9th Division, chief of the Taiyuan secret service, commander of the 1st Independent Garrison, and attached to the 34th Army Headquarters (Minister of Military Adviser to Hankow).
During the 215th Infantry Wing of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army in Anyi and Wuning, Jiangxi, Yoshio Ishino served as the wing commander, and there were many people in the army who had cameras, and they took a large number of battlefield **, and finally more than 250 pieces were collected **, which were assembled into a volume of "Commemorative Photo of the China Incident of the Ishino Army", which became one of the ironclad proofs of Japan's invasion of China.
Yoshio Ishino was born on March 10, 1896, and graduated from the 28th Infantry Section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School on May 26, 1916.
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On December 26, 1923, Yoshio Ishino was admitted to the 38th class of the Army University, and he worked with Takeda Shou, Uzawa Naobu, Kimura Matsujiro, Aki Nagari, and Wakamatsu.
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After graduating from the Army University, Yoshio Ishino was assigned to the Second Department of the Army General Staff Headquarters (Intelligence Department), and was soon dispatched to the Chinese garrison army, which was a product of the "Xinchou Treaty", which stipulated that the foreign ** team could be stationed in 12 strategic places along the line from Beijing to Shanhaiguan, and the headquarters was located in Haiguang Temple in Tianjin, and Yoshio Ishino served as the military attache stationed in Shanhaiguan with the rank of infantry captain.
At that time, Kawamoto Daisaku, a senior staff officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters, planned the "Huanggutun Incident" in 1928, and when the special train of "Northeast King" Zhang Zuolin passed through Shanhaiguan Railway Station, Ishino Yoshio sent a telegram to Kawamoto Daisaku to report the specific time of Zhang Zuolin's special train passing through Shanhaiguan Railway Station, which provided a basis for Kawamoto Daisaku to accurately set the first time in Huanggutun, causing Zhang Zuolin to be seriously injured and died by 200 kilograms of high explosives, so Ishino Yoshio was also one of the culprits of the "Huanggutun Incident".
In the following 10 years, Yoshio Ishino's experience is unknown, until May 31, 1938, he was appointed as the military attache stationed in Hong Kong as an infantry lieutenant, and was promoted to infantry chief on July 15 during his tenure.
On December 27, 1939, Yoshio Ishino was transferred to the 11th Army of the Chinese Dispatch Army and served as the commander of the 215th Infantry Wing of the 33rd Division, which was formed in Sendai, Japan on February 7 of that year.
When Yoshio Ishino arrived, the 33rd Division had just participated in the "First Battle of Changsha", and at this time was stationed in Anyi, Wuning, Jiangxi and other places to serve as a garrison and combat mission, Yoshio Ishino led the 215th Infantry Wing to participate in the operation in the direction of northern Jiangxi, during which the people of Jiangxi were brutally killed, and many war crimes and crimes were committed.
On December 2, 1940, Yoshio Ishino was transferred to the Japanese Kwantung Army, replacing Kusunayama Hideyoshi as chief of staff of the 9th Division, assisting Lieutenant General Kiguchi Jiichiro, who was then the commander of the division, the division under the jurisdiction of the 7th Infantry Wing, the 19th Infantry Wing and the 35th Infantry Wing, the 9th Cavalry Wing, the 9th Mountain Artillery Wing, the 9th Engineer Wing, the 9th Baggage Corps and the Signal Corps, the Health Corps, the 1st to the 4th Field Hospitals, etc., stationed in the Mudanjiang Yehe area to serve as a garrison. That is, the area around the Tieling River of the Mudanjiang River is now subordinate to the combat sequence of the Third Army of the Kwantung Army.
On October 15, 1941, Yoshio Ishino was promoted to major general, and on July 1 of the following year, he was transferred to the head of the Taiyuan secret service, Taiyuan is an important town in the northwest, and the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army was located in Taiyuan, the commander at that time was Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu, and the chief of staff was Major General Kusuyama Hideyoshi, and on August 1 of the same year, Yoshimoto Sadachi succeeded as commander, and on December 1, Hanaya Masashi succeeded as chief of staff.
Ishino Yoshio's important mission as the head of the Taiyuan secret service was to assist the military commander of the First Army in luring the "King of Shanxi" Yan Xishan. Before and after the "18th Incident", he served as an assistant to Kenji Dohihara, and he was also a planner. One of the culprits of the "18 Incident" was that this person was domineering in his talks with Yan Xishan, did not take Yan Xishan seriously at all, and lacked sufficient respect for him, which made Yan Xishan very embarrassed, let alone cooperate with the Japanese.
On June 10, 1943, Yoshio Ishino was transferred to the Japanese Kwantung Army and served as the commander of the 1st Independent Garrison Brigade, which has 6 independent garrison infantry brigades and 1 operation team, with a total of 6481 soldiers, equivalent to the size of an independent mixed brigade.
On June 19, 1944, Yoshio Ishino was transferred to the Chinese Dispatch Army and served as the commander of the 34th Army Command (Hankou Military Advisory Minister) organized in Hankou, the commander of the army was Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano, and the chief of staff was Major General Masataka Kasaki, under the jurisdiction of the 39th Division, which was independently mixed into the 17th Brigade and the Independent Infantry Division.
The 5th, 7th, 10th, and 12th brigades were under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Sixth Front.
On April 30, 1945, Yoshio Ishino was promoted to lieutenant general, and on May 1, he was transferred back to Japan to serve as an attached to the Army Infantry School, which at that time also concentrated a number of newly promoted army lieutenant generals such as Hasumi Kinzaburo, Nagano Kameiichiro, and Ochiai Ding.
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On June 2, 1945, Yoshio Ishino was selected as the commander of the 229th Division, whose chief of staff was Yoshida Yoshihisa Nakasa, the division was formed in Kanazawa on May 23, under the jurisdiction of the 344th Infantry Wing, the 345th Infantry Wing and the 346th Infantry Wing, which was deployed in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan for defensive tasks, under the direct jurisdiction of the 13th Front Army Headquarters of the First General Army, the headquarters of the Front Army was located in Nagoya, the commander was Lieutenant General Okada, and the chief of staff was Major General Shibata Kazo.
After Japan's defeat and surrender, Ishino Yoshio led the officers and soldiers of the 229th Division to surrender to the U.S. Army in Tsuhata Town, Hebei County, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.