field marshal Shunroku Hata (left) and staff officers on a japanese navy ship deck (china 1939)


ship deck

General Baron Sadao Araki one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in Japan in 1930s, Within the Army, Araki was a solid supporter of the "Northern Expansion Doctrine" Hokushin-ron, which proposed attack on the Soviet Far East and Siberia.

General Sadao Araki

a happy looking Field marshal Count Hisaichi Terauchi (center) and field marshal Shunroku Hata in a reunion after sucessful operations in north china (1938)