Colonel Tsuji Masanobu: Japan’s Fanatical Ideologue, Staff Officer and Cannibal

Tsuji Masanobu might be one of the most notorious Japanese officers of the Second World War... and there is a good chance you have never heard of him.

John Dower describes him as a “fanatical ideologue and pathological brutal staff officer”. Others give him the dubious honour of being “rightly described as a maverick and a fanatic.”

The ultranationalist officer indeed was a zealot, which gave him a near-perverted sense of courage.
At the same time, he was referred to as the ‘God of Strategy’ for playing a vital role in the planning of Japan’s Malay campaign. He also authorised the offensive against Port Moresby along the Kokoda Trail. He didn’t just fight against opposing military, though - he was responsible for tens of thousands of civilian and prisoner casualties. Some historians write that if any Japanese officer should have been tried for war crimes, it was Tsuji. Yet he never stood trial. His entire wartime experience was tarnished and riddled with extreme excesses.

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Sources:

Bradsher, Greg, Edward J. Drea, Robert J. Hanyok, James H. Lide, Michael B. Petersen, and Daqing Yang. Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays. Jeffrey Frank Jones, 2006.

Hastings, Max, and Peter Stanley. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan. London: Harper Perennial, 2008.

Petersen, Michael. "The Intelligence that wasn’t: CIA name Files, the US Army, and Intelligence Gathering in Occupied Japan’." Researching Japanese War Crimes: Introductory Essays (2006): 197-230.

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