Word: nishio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incident" for November 1935. General Tojo was obliged to state that he had really meant "the general period of 1935-36." Shortly he was sent to Manchukuo with the Kwantung Army, where he redeemed himself by becoming the Man Friday of that Army's blustering leaders, Generals Juzo Nishio and Seishiro Itagaki. For them he ran a Gestapo, checking up on the Army's loyalties. He was said to have agents scattered from the remote frontiers to Mukden's hotels. His red brick headquarters bulged with dossiers on every Kwantung officer and he was known as Manchukuo...