Iwane Matsui
1878 to 1948
11 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 11 dated presences for Iwane Matsui across 7 places, from 1878 to 1946. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the commander of the expeditionary force sent to China in 1937.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Iwane Matsui was documented, and when
27 July 1878exact date
1907year
Chinaattested
“At first the Army General Staff gave Matsui an assignment in France, but in 1907 he got his wish to go to China, where he worked as an aide to the military attaché and did intelligence work.”
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1907year
Franceattested
“At first the Army General Staff gave Matsui an assignment in France, but in 1907 he got his wish to go to China, where he worked as an aide to the military attaché and did intelligence work.”
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1907year
Japanattested
“In 1907 when a young Chiang Kai-shek (then a Chinese soldier) wanted to study abroad, Matsui helped him find a place to stay in Japan.”
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1921 to 1924period
Chinaattested
“In 1921 Matsui was posted to Siberia as a staff officer, but returned in 1922 to China where he served until 1924 as an advisor to Zhang Zuolin in the Chinese city of Harbin and did intelligence work for Japan's Kwantung Army.”
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1921 to 1924period
Siberiaattested
“In 1921 Matsui was posted to Siberia as a staff officer, but returned in 1922 to China where he served until 1924 as an advisor to Zhang Zuolin in the Chinese city of Harbin and did intelligence work for Japan's Kwantung Army.”
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1932year
Japanattested
“After returning to Japan in late 1932, Matsui abruptly appeared at the office of the Pan-Asia Study Group, a Tokyo-based think tank, and presented its members with a bold plan to expand their small organization into an international mass…”
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March 1933month
Japanattested
“Matsui persuaded them to adopt his ideas, and in March 1933 the study group was rechristened the Greater Asia Association (大亜細亜協会 Dai-Ajia Kyōkai), described by the historian Torsten Weber as "the single most influential organization to…”
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March 1936month
Chinaattested
“In February and March 1936, amid ongoing tension with China, Matsui made a second trip to China, this time on a government-sponsored goodwill tour.”
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1946year
Atamiattested
“Later that year Matsui bought a new home in Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture and from then until 1946 he spent his winters living in Atami and his summers living at his old house on Lake Yamanaka.”
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1946year
Shizuoka Prefectureattested
“Later that year Matsui bought a new home in Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture and from then until 1946 he spent his winters living in Atami and his summers living at his old house on Lake Yamanaka.”
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Places Iwane Matsui is documented in
China3 presences · 1907 to 1936Japan3 presences · 1907 to 1933France1 presence · 1907Nagoya1 presence · 1878Siberia1 presence · 1921
Atami1 presence · 1946
Shizuoka Prefecture1 presence · 1946
Other places tied to Iwane Matsui in the record
In each of these, a source puts Iwane Matsui and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Iwane Matsui was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1858 to 1896period
Chinamentioned
“Matsui was a fervent admirer of the recently deceased Sei Arao (1858–1896), a continental adventurer and pan-Asianist army officer from his hometown who had served in China.”
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1907 to 1919period
Battle of Shanghaimentioned
“Matsui worked in China between 1907 and 1911, and then again as resident officer in Shanghai between 1915 and 1919.”
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August 1933month
Taiwanmentioned
“In August 1933 Matsui was dispatched to Taiwan to command the Taiwan Army, and then on October 20 was promoted to the rank of general, the highest rank in the Japanese Army.”
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August 1934month
Japanmentioned
“He then returned to Japan in August 1934 to take a seat on Japan's Supreme War Council.”
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December 1935month
Tianjinmentioned
“Between October and December 1935 he toured the major cities of China and Manchukuo speaking to Chinese politicians and businessmen about pan-Asianism and setting up a new branch of the Greater Asia Association in Tianjin.”
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December 1935month
Japanmentioned
“Upon his return to Japan in December 1935 he became President of the Greater Asia Association.”
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7 February 1938exact date
Nanjingmentioned
“He must be held criminally responsible for his failure to discharge this duty.Historian Yuma Totani notes that this verdict represents "one of the earliest precedents for command responsibility in the history of international law." Short…”
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21 February 1938exact date
Japanmentioned
“Matsui sailed out of Shanghai on February 21, 1938, and landed back in Japan on February 23.”
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1940year
Atamimentioned
“It was also in 1940 that Matsui commissioned the construction of a statue of Kannon, the bodhisattva of mercy, and then had a special temple built in Atami to enshrine it.”
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1945year
Philippinesmentioned
“In 1945 as the Allies bore down on the Philippines Matsui declared over the radio that Japan would never withdraw from the Philippines "even though Tokyo should be reduced to ashes." Soon after he also stated his plans to speak at a lect…”
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15 August 1945exact date
Atamimentioned
“Nevertheless, on August 15, 1945, at his home in Atami Matsui heard Emperor Hirohito announce that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.”
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6 March 1946exact date
Sugamo Prisonmentioned
“On March 6, 1946, he surrendered himself in to Sugamo Prison.”
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Documented at the same place, the same year
Maximilian KolbeJapan · 1932Shūsaku EndōJapan · 1933Zhou EnlaiChina · 1921Liu ShaoqiChina · 1921Zhang ZuolinChina · 1921Georges BraqueParis · 1907Janusz KorczakParis · 1907Alphonse MuchaParis · 1907Manuel de FallaParis · 1907August MackeParis · 1907Rubén DaríoParis · 1907Pierre JanssenParis · 1907
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