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Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文, Yamashita Tomoyuki, 8 November 1885 – 23 February 1946; also called Tomobumi Yamashita [2]) was a Japanese convicted war criminal and general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Apr 16, 2024 · Role In: World War II. Yamashita Tomoyuki (born Nov. 8, 1885, Kōchi, Japan—died Feb. 23, 1946, Manila, Phil.) was a Japanese general known for his successful attacks on Malaya and Singapore during World War II. After graduating from the Army Academy (1905) and the Army War College (1916), Yamashita was an officer for the Army General Staff ...
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Jun 12, 2006 · The 'Tiger of Malaya,' General Tomoyuki Yamashita, was hanged near Manila in retribution for Japanese war crimes. In measured steps a column of five men enters the screened enclosure concealing the hangman’s noose. The officer in command gives a terse order, and the somber group halts. More commands are given, and the execution detail moves ...
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- The twisting path to high command. Yamashita’s career almost exactly spanned the period of the rise and fall of Japan’s imperial army. Born in 1885, he graduated from the army academy at the age of 20, in the year that his country’s victory in the Russo-Japanese War marked its emergence as a great power.
- An untypical general. In many respects Yamashita was untypical of the military caste through whose ranks he rose. He lacked many of the political skills necessary for successfully negotiating the complex factional struggles which beset the upper echelons of Japan’s officer corps from the 1920s onwards.
- Planning for conquest. Yamashita undertook his most important campaign with troops who lacked up-to-date weapons and equipment, and were in fact heavily outnumbered.
- Tropical warfare. Thorough preparation preceded the Japanese assault on land. A specialist unit based in Formosa (modern Taiwan), in which the key figure was Yamashita’s chief operations officer, Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, had been working on all aspects of tropical warfare.
General Tomoyuki Yamashita commanded the Japanese invasion of Singapore and Malaya in December 1941. His successes earned him the nickname ‘the Tiger of Malaya’. After surrendering in September 1945, he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.
Country. Japan. Category. Military-Ground. Gender. Male. Contributor: C. Peter Chen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was born to a doctor in the village of Osugi Mura on the island of Shikoku, Kochi Prefecture. He was 5'7" in height and his build was larger than the average Japanese.
General Tomoyuki Yamashita, age 59, was the Imperial Japanese Army’s canniest tactician—a man nicknamed the “Tiger of Malaya” for his stunning conquest of British-held Singapore in 1942. Now, three years later, Yamashita commanded some 262,000 combatants of the 14th Area Army in an assignment most considered utterly impossible.
