Asasaburo Kobayashi
| Surname | Kobayashi |
| Given Name | Asasaburo |
| Born | 1 Apr 1891 |
| Died | 7 Mar 1974 |
| Country | Japan |
| Category | Military-Ground |
| Gender | Male |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseAsasaburo Kobayashi was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan in 1891. In the early 1930s, he was attached to the Imperial Household. In 1935, he became an instructor at the army infantry school. Between 1936 and 1937, he was the chief of staff of the Imperial Guards Division. Between 1937 and 1938, he was the commanding officer of the 3rd Infantry Regiment. Between Nov 1938 and Dec 1939, he was the chief of staff of the 12th Army. His next position was the chief of the 1st Section of the Inspectorate-General of Military Training of the Army General Staff, which he held until Jul 1941. In Jul 1941, he was made the chief of staff of the 4th Army. Between Dec 1941 and 1943, he was the chief of staff of General Defense Command. Between Jun 1943 and Mar 1944, he was the commanding officer of the 30th Division. He then became the chief of staff of General Defense Command once again until Feb 1945. In the spring of 1945, he was sent to China as the chief of staff of the Japanese China Expeditionary Army. After Japan surrendered, he, at the rank of lieutenant general, was a member of the Japanese delegation that surrendered in the Chinese capital of Nanjing. He passed away in Japan in 1974.
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Last Major Revision: Feb 2024
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| 1 Apr 1891 | Asasaburo Kobayashi was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. |
| 1 Aug 1935 | Asasaburo Kobayashi was promoted to the rank of colonel. |
| 9 Nov 1938 | Asasaburo Kobayashi was made the chief of staff of Japanese 12th Army, stationed in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. |
| 1 Dec 1939 | Asasaburo Kobayashi stepped down as the chief of staff of Japanese 12th Army in China and became the chief of the 1st Section of the Inspectorate-General of Military Training of the Army General Staff. |
| 7 Jul 1941 | Asasaburo Kobayashi was made the chief of staff of Japanese 4th Army based in Bei'an, Heilongjiang Province, China. |
| 25 Aug 1941 | Asasaburo Kobayashi was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. |
| 10 Jun 1943 | Asasaburo Kobayashi was made the commanding officer of Japanese 30th Division based in Heijo, Heiannan-do, Korea (now Pyongyang, North Korea). |
| 9 Sep 1945 | At 0900 hours, the main Japanese surrender ceremony in China took place at the auditorium of the Central Military Academy in Nanjing, China. General Yasuji Okamura, Commander-in-Chief of Japanese Army's China Expeditionary Army, represented Japan; his delegation also included chief of staff of the China Expeditionary Army Asasaburo Kobayashi. General He Yingqin represented China. In pursuit of Chiang Kaishek's wishes to treat the Japanese with benevolence, the Chinese had wanted the ceremony to be taken place at a round table so that the Japanese representatives would be viewed as peers, but the American liaisons sent to Nanjing succeeded in preventing such a friendly gesture. General He was said to have apologized to Okamura, an old acquaintance at the Japanese Army Academy in the 1910s, for subjecting him to such an embarrassing arrangement forced by the Americans. As a part of the surrender agreement, Japanese troops in China were to remain in power to maintain order, to care for prisoners of war, and to guard important locations against Chinese Communists. |
| 7 Mar 1974 | Asasaburo Kobayashi passed away in Japan. |
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