Tomoyuki Yamashita

Tomoyuki Yamashita
山下 奉文
Military Governor of Japan to the Philippines
Termino
26 September 1944 – 2 September 1945
Monarch Emperor Hirohito
Suminunod ki Shigenori Kuroda
Sinundan ni Position abolished
Personal na mga detalye
Kamundagan (1885-11-08)8 Nobyembre 1885
Ōtoyo, Kōchi, Japan
Kagadanan 23 Pebrero 1946(1946-02-23) (edad 60)
Los Baños, Laguna, Commonwealth of the Philippines
Lulubngan Tama Reien Cemetery, Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater Imperial Japanese Army Academy
Awards Order of the Golden Kite
Order of the Rising Sun
Order of the Sacred Treasure
Order of the German Eagle
Military service
(Mga) gaha Tiger of Malaya
The Beast of Bataan[1]
Allegiance  Empire of Japan
Serbisyo/sangay  Imperial Japanese Army
Mga taon kan serbisyo 1905–1945
Ranggo General
Commands 25th Army
1st Area Army
14th Area Army
Battles/wars World War I
Second Sino-Japanese War
Pacific War

Si Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文, Yamashita Tomoyuki?, Nobyembre 8, 1885 - Pebrero 23, 1946) sarong heneral sa Hokbong Imperial kan Hapon durante kan Ikaduwang Gerang Pankinaban. Siya orog nabantog kan nasakop niya an enterong kolonya kan Britanya na iyo an Malaya asin Singapur. Mala ta huli kaini, nabansagan siyang "Tigre kan Malaya."

  1. Marouf Hasian, In the Name of Necessity: Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties, University of Alabama Press, 2012, p. 286 (chapter 7, note 6). "Contemporary writers sometimes called Yamashita the "Beast of Bataan." See "The Philippines: Quiet Room in Manila," Time, 12 November, 194.5, 21."