Homma Masaharu

Homma Masaharu

▪ Japanese general
born Nov. 27, 1887, Sado, Japan
died April 3, 1946, Los Baños, Luzon, Phil.

      Japanese army general and commander of the Japanese invasion force of the Philippine Islands in World War II.

      Homma was a graduate of the Military Academy of the Japanese Imperial Army (1907) and of the Army General Staff College (1915). During World War I he was an observer with the British forces in France, and in 1925 he served as Japanese resident officer in India. In 1930 Homma was appointed military attaché in London. In 1939 he commanded Japanese forces at Tientsin, China, when the Japanese army blockaded the foreign concession there.

      In December 1941, a few days after the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Homma, then a lieutenant general, led the Japanese invasion of the Philippine Islands. Although it was commonly supposed that Homma had been superseded by General Tomoyuki Yamashita after the campaign bogged down at Bataan and Corregidor, subsequent evidence suggested that Homma held the supreme command throughout the campaign. He also directed the mopping-up actions against stray U.S. and Filipino forces in the Visayas and Mindanao areas.

      Homma, who arrived in Tokyo to surrender to U.S. forces on Sept. 14, 1945, was brought to trial in December. He was formally charged with having been responsible for the Bataan Death March, which occurred shortly after the Japanese conquest. It was estimated that some 10,000 Filipino and U.S. troops died during the forced march. Convicted of ordering the death march and for condoning other atrocities, Homma was executed by a firing squad.

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