Shunroku Hata

, was a Japanese general.  

Hata was minister of war in 1939.  He was commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in China in 1941.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hata Shunroku" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 297. 

He was the last surviving Japanese military officer with a rank of Field Marshal. He was jailed at the end of World War Two and released in 1955.

Honors
 Order of the Rising Sun
 Order of the Golden Kite 

References

Category:1879 births
Category:1962 deaths
Category:Japanese criminals
Category:Japanese military people
Category:Military personnel of World War II
Category:People from Fukushima Prefecture