Gen. Tachibana


Yoshio Tachibana (立花芳夫 Tachibana Yoshio?, d. September 24, 1946) was a lieutenant general of the Japanese Imperial Army. He was commander of the Japanese troops in Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands, and was held responsible for the “Chichijima Incident” a war crime involving torture, extrajudicial execution and cannibalism of Allied prisoners of war.


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