Oi Shigemoto

Oi Shigemoto
Occupation Military officer

Lieutenant General Oi Shigemoto (大井 成元 Ōi Shigemoto) was a Japanese general who commanded the 12th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Siberian Intervention.

The division was sent to Siberia in August 1918.[1] Shigemoto later became the commanding officer of the Vladivostok Expeditionary Force.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Harald Fuess (31 December 1998). The Japanese empire in East Asia and its postwar legacy 3. Iudicium-Verlag. p. 44. ISBN 9783891295021.
  2. ↑ Leonard A. Humphreys (31 March 1995). The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920's. Stanford University Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780804723756.

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