Kumao Imoto

Kumao Imoto (1903 in Yamaguchi Prefecture - 2000) (井本熊男) was a Japanese military officer.

Life

Imoto logged fatal experiments with cyanide gas as a weapon in 1942.[1] He delivered the evacuation orders to the Japanese Seventeenth Army in Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of the Second World War (Operation Ke). The withdrawal was largely successful.

He was the senior surviving staff officer in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atom bomb, and acted as chief of staff to Field Marshal Hata during the immediate aftermath, though wounded.

He wrote The Great East Asian War, written as an Operations Diary (Dai Toa Senso Sakusen Nisshi) published in 1979.[2]

References
  1. Ezekiel J. Emanuel; Christine C. Grady; Robert A. Crouch; Reidar K. Lie; Franklin G. Miller; David D. Wendler, eds. (2011). The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-972166-5.
  2. Hell's Islands: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal - Page 387


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