Takurō Matsui (松井太久郎;

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, 3 December 1887 – 10 June 1969) was a Lieutenant General in the

Imperial Japanese Army The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; , ''Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun'', "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan from 1871 to 1945. It played a central role in Japan’s rapid modernization during th ...

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. Matsui commanded the Western District Army between 15 July 1938 and 9 March 1940. He received command of the 5th Japanese Division on 15 October 1940, which fought at that time in China in the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

. On 8 December 1941, his division landed on the beaches of Southern Thailand and fought with success in the

Malayan Campaign The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the , was a military campaign fought by Allies of World War II, Allied and Axis powers, Axis forces in British Malaya, Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 15 February 1942 during the World War ...

and the following Battle of Singapore.Yenne, p. 96 On 11 May 1942, he was replaced at the head of the division by Lieutenant General Yamamoto Tsutomi. On 18 March 1943 he became Chief of Staff of the

China Expeditionary Army The was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1939 to 1945. The China Expeditionary Army was established in September 1939 from the merger of the Central China Expeditionary Army and Japanese Northern China Area Army, and was ...

, a post he would hold until 1 February 1945, when he became commander until the end of the War of the Thirteenth Army, posted in the lower Yangtze River area of east central China.

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* * 1887 births 1969 deaths Imperial Japanese Army generals of World War II {{Japan-mil-bio-stub