Tadashi Katakura
Katakura Tadashi was a Japanese general who fought in World War II.
Katakura was a prominent member of the Tōsei-ha faction and as a consequence was a target of the Kōdō-ha faction in the 26 February Incident in 1936, and indeed sustained a head wound at the time.
He was on the staff of the Burma Area Army. He was chief of staff of the Thirty-third Army from 8 April 1944 to 19 June 1944. He was commander of the 202nd Division.Later life
Katakura resigned in December 1945.
In 1989 he appeared as himself in The Road to War, a television documentary miniseries, narrated by Charles Wheeler.
Katakura died in 1991.
