Kanji Ishiwara
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Kanji Ishiwara (石原 莞爾, Ishiwara Kanji, January 18, 1889 - August 15, 1949) was a Japanese military officer in the Kantogun. He and Itagaki Seishiro were the men behind the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931.
General Ishiwara was actually one of the few Japanese inside the military that rallied against expanding into China after taking Manchuria. Ishiwara believed that a war with China would weaken Japan against the true threat of the Soviet Union that most in the military believed was inevitable.
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- Mark R. Peattie (1975) Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West
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