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Shiizaki, Jiro

Date of birth:
September 20th, 1911 (Wakayama Prefecture, Japan)
Date of death:
August 15th, 1945 (Tokyo, Japan)
Nationality:
Japanese

Biography

Lieutenant Colonel Jiro Shiizaki, together with other conspirators of the failed coup attempt, committed suicide on Imperial Palace grounds on 15 August 1945.

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Sources

  • - "Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle That Ended an Empire (1968)