Hiroaki Hata

Hiroaki Hata was born on 9 November 1909 in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
In 1928, he joined the Japanese Army. He joined the IJA 33rd Infantry Regiment. He was transferred from Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture to Dalian, Liaoning. He was personally trained and taught by Seishiro Itagaki because Seishiro saw him as a good and loyal soldier. 
In 1930, Seishiro decided to keep Hiroaki under his wing as his trusted right hand man. Even in 1937, when Seishiro went to war with China, Hiroaki stayed with the General. 
In 1944, there was an attempted assassination on General Seishiro Itagaki in his home in Siping, Jilin. Three members of the Chinese Audax Brotherhood broke into his house and started a gunfight. The General survived but his main bodyguard, Hiroaki Hata did not. The 3 men were Hou Wanrou, Huang Chenliang and Hu Xianrong who acted under the orders of Wong Xianfeng.