Shunroku Hata

Shunroku Hata
Shunroku Hata
畑俊六
	Field Marshal Shunroku Hata serving at Second General Army
Minister of War
	In office; August 30, 1939 – July 22, 1940
Monarch	Shōwa
Prime Minister	Nobuyuki Abe; Mitsumasa Yonai;
Preceded by	Seishirō Itagaki
Succeeded by	Hideki Tōjō
Personal details
Born	July 26, 1879; Fukushima Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died	May 10, 1962 (aged 82); Tokyo, Japan
Awards	Order of the Rising Sun First Class; Order of the Golden Kite First Class; Order of the Sacred Treasure First Class
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1901–1945
Rank	Field Marshal (Gensui)
Unit	Third Army (Japan)
Commands	14th Division; Taiwan Army of Japan; China Expeditionary Army; Second General Army (Japan)
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War; World War I; Second Sino-Japanese War Battle of Xuzhou; Battle of Wuhan; Battle of Taierzhuang; Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign; Operation Ichi-Go; ; World War II Atomic bombing of Hiroshima; ;

Shunroku Hata (畑俊六, Hata Shunroku; July 26, 1879 – May 10, 1962) was a field marshal (gensui) in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was the last surviving Japanese military officer with a marshal's rank. Hata was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948, but was paroled in 1955.