Seishiro Itagaki/Definition

Imperial Japanese Army officer, a specialist in intelligence and covert operations in China, who commanded an infantry regiment during the Manchurian Incident; later chief adviser on Manchukoan affairs for the Kwangtung Army; war minister 1938-1939 during the border wars with Russia; rear army commander during WWII; condemned and hanged as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East