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...Itagaki-General Seishiro Itagaki-a soldier whom only Japan could produce...
...Japanese army had been broken for twelve years. Until 1873, only the sons of Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and, until a very few years before that, ingrown Japan was uninterested in the schemes of conquest which alone could develop military imperialists. As it was, Seishiro Itagaki was free to join and rise in the new army. Japan in his boyhood was storing up the ambitions, greeds and hatreds which first exploded upon the white man's world in the year when Itagaki graduated from the Military Academy...
...Fronts for the Axis? In Siberia, a Russian army under General Grigory Stern stood on its arms, waiting for the Japanese under General Seishiro Itagaki to strike east from Manchukuo against Vladivostok, north toward Lake Baikal to cut the Trans-Siberian Railroad. If the slashes struck deep, Russia's wounds might be mortal. If Russia parried the blow, her defense would call for a new U.S. aerial front based in Siberia, with Japan the target of its attack. But thousands of Japs in the Aleutians barred...
...Pacing the enemy south was the Ever-Victorious Fifth. Every Japanese patriot long since learned about the Ever-Victorious Fifth; now the Allies were learning the hard way. Battle laurels of Japan's crack Fifth Division go back to the Russo-Japanese War. Once mummy-faced Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki himself commanded it. It had smacked the Chinese at the battle of Nankow Pass in 1937, sacked Taiyiian, fought at Süchow. It had spearheaded the spectacular Japanese drive on Nanning...
...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...