Jirō Tamon

Infobox Military Person
name=Jirō Tamon
lived= 28 September 1878 - 24 November 1934
placeofbirth=Shizuoka prefecture, Japan
placeofdeath=


caption=General Jirō Tamon
nickname=
allegiance=Empire of Japan
branch=
serviceyears=1905 -1934
rank=Lieutenant General
commands=IJA 2nd Division
unit=
battles= Russo-Japanese War
Siberian Intervention
Second Sino-Japanese War
awards=
family=
laterwork=nihongo|Jirō Tamon|多門二郎| Tamon Jirō|extra= 28 September 1878 - 24 November 1934 was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the early Second Sino-Japanese War. He was noted as the commander in many of the operations of the invasion of Manchuria.

Biography

A native of Shizuoka prefecture, Tamon graduated from the 11th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1898, and served in the Russo-Japanese War. After the end of the war, he graduated from the 21st class of the Army Staff College in 1909. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the IJA 6th Division. [Ammenthorp, The Generals of World War II] After commanding the IJA 62nd Infantry Regiment and spending six months on tour in Europe, he was assigned to the IJA 27th Infantry Regiment based in Siberia in 1920 as part of Japan's Siberian Intervention during the Russian Civil War. During the conflict, he was assigned an independent command (the “Tamon Task Force”), which was part of the relief force for Nikolayevsk-on-Amur after the Nikolayevsk Incident. [White, The Siberian Intervention]

Later, he was attached to the staff of the Sakhalin Expeditionary Force. Tamon commanded the IJA 2nd Regiment from 1921 to 1922. He was then Chief of Staff of the IJA 4th Division until 1924, when he was given command of IJA 6th Infantry Brigade.

Tamon was Chief of the 4th Bureau of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1925 to 1927, and then returned to the Army War College, first as Director, then as Commandant in 1929.

From 1930 to 1933, as lieutenant general Tamon commanded IJA 2nd Division. While in Manchuria in 1931 he took the lead in the Jiangqiao Campaign, Chinchow Operation, and in overcoming the defense of Harbin, following the Mukden Incident. [ Matsusaka, The Making of Japanese Manchuria ] After he was relieved in 1933 he went into reserve, and was retired. He died the next year.

References

Books

*cite book
last = Bix
first = Herbert B
year = 2001
title = Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
publisher = Harper Perennial
location =
id = ISBN 0-06-093130-2
*cite book
last = Coox
first = Alvin
year = 1990
title = Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939
publisher = Stanford University Press
location =
id = 0804718350
*cite book
last = Dupuy
first = Trevor N.
year = 1992
title = Encyclopedia of Military Biography
publisher = I B Tauris & Co Ltd
location =
id = ISBN 1-85043-569-3
*cite book
last = Matsusaka
first = Yoshihisa Tak
coauthors =
year = 2003
title = The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
publisher = Harvard University Asia Center
location =
id = ISBN: 0674012062
*cite book
last = White
first = John Albert
year = 1950
title = The Siberian Intervention
publisher = Princeton University Press
location =
id = ISBN 1-85043-569-3

External links

*cite web
last = Ammenthorp
first = Steen
url = http://www.generals.dk/general/Tamon/Jiro/Japan.html
title = Lieutenant-General Jiro Tamon
work = The Generals of World War II
* [http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=6884 Japanese Army General Staff]
* [http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=6881 Japanese Army War College]

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