Tadashi Katakura

{{Short description|Japanese general}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox military person |name=Tadashi Katakura |native_name=片倉衷 |native_name_lang=jpn |birth_date= {{birth date|1898|05|18|df=y}} |death_date= {{Death date and age|1991|07|23|1898|05|18|df=y}} |birth_place=Fukushima Prefecture, Japan<ref name=kotobank/> |death_place= |image=Tadashi Katakura.jpg |caption= |nickname= |allegiance={{flag|Empire of Japan}} |branch={{army|Empire of Japan}} |service_years= |rank=35px Lieutenant General |commands=202nd Division |unit= |battles= {{tree list}} * 26 February Incident{{WIA}} * Second Sino-Japanese War * World War II {{tree list/end}} |awards= |family= |other_work= }} {{nihongo|'''Tadashi Katakura'''|片倉衷|Katakura Tadashi|18 May 1898 – 23 July 1991}} was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.<ref name=kotobank>{{cite web|title=Katakura Tadashi|url=http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%89%87%E5%80%89%E8%A1%B7|work=Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus|publisher=Kōdansha|accessdate=22 April 2014|language=Japanese}}</ref>

Katakura was a prominent member of the Tōsei-ha faction and as a consequence was a target of the Kōdō-ha faction in the 26 February Incident in 1936, and indeed sustained a head wound at the time.

He was on the staff of the Burma Area Army. He was chief of staff of the Thirty-third Army from 8 April 1944 to 19 June 1944. He was commander of the 202nd Division.

==Later life== Katakura resigned in December 1945.

In 1989 he appeared as himself (Kwantung Army Officer, 1931) in ''The Road to War'', a television documentary miniseries, narrated by Charles Wheeler.

Katakura died in 1991.

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