Takeo Yasuda was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. While serving as director of the Army's Aviation Technology Research Institute during World War II, he was a key figure in scientific and technological development for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, most notably his involvement in the early development of a Japanese atomic bomb during the early stages of the war.


Takeo Yasuda

General Tomoyuki Yamashita was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya". On 6 November 1941, Yamashita was put in command of the Twenty-Fifth Army. On 8 December, he launched an invasion of Malaya, from bases in French Indochina. In the campaign, which concluded with the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, Yamashita's 30,000 front-line soldiers and 200 tanks fought against a poorly equiped force with no armored force, Yamashita's force captured 130,000 British, Indian and Australian troops, the largest surrender of British-led personnel in history

The Tiger of Malaya

officer of the kōgeki tai tokubetsu which literally means &quot;special attack unit&quot; erroneously called kamikaze