Yamazaki Tomoyuki

Major General Yamazaki Tomoyuki was born on 12 December 1898 in Shimamoto, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
In 1916, he joined the Japanese Army. He fought in the Siberian Intervention in Russia under Otani Kikuzo. He spent most of his time in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai until 1920, when he was needed during the Chita Holdup where he miraculously saved Kikuzo's life in an ambush. 
This got him a big promotion and he became a colonel. During the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia, China. He served under Seishiro Itagaki. He got a rank of Major General which he remained until his death in 1939 in Hinggan where he died during a battle with Russian and Mongolian forces led by Georgy Zhukov.