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The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Commons. Ushijima Mitsuru was born in Kagoshima prefecture and graduated from the Japanese military academy in and the Army Staff College in He participated in the Siberian Expedition in before becoming an instructor at the Infantry School and director of the Toyama Military School Ushijima was given command of 11 Division in central China in and again led it in Burma in After a tour as commandant of the military academy, he was given command of 32 Army on Okinawa on 8 August His army put up ferocious resistance to the American invasion of Okinawa by 10 Army in April-June , in part because of Ushijima's realism Leckie :.

Ushijima and his chief of staff, Cho Isamu , committed ritual suicide on 21 June when Japanese resistance finally collapsed. Ushijima left behind two jisei death poems Feifer :. Ushijima has been described as a tall, quiet ascetic, with considerable presence, considerate of his officers and possessed of a sense of humor. His consideration for his men went so far as to admonish his junior officers to refrain from striking their subordinates, a common practice in the Japanese Army.

Like many of the most professional and least political of the Japanese Army's senior commanders, he relied heavily on his staff, believing it beneath a senior commander to worry over details.

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