was chief of staff to Takeshi Mori, commander of the First Imperial Guards Division, at the end of World War II. Mizutani was in his office, listening to Col.

Masataka Ida Lt. Col. (5 October 1912 – 6 February 2004) was a young Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Affairs Section of the Japanese Ministry of War, at the end of World War II. He had been stationed on Formosa (Taiwan), but was ordered back to Tokyo ...

's explanation of a plot to prevent Japan's surrender, when Gen. Mori was killed by the lead conspirator, Maj.

Kenji Hatanaka (28 March 1912 – 15 August 1945) was a Japanese military officer and one of the chief conspirators in the Kyūjō incident, a plot to seize the Imperial Palace and to prevent the broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's surrender speech to mark the ...

. He then went with Ida to the headquarters of the

Eastern District Army The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of the Kantō region and northern Honshū during the Pacific War. It was one of the regional commands in the Japanese home islands reporting to the General Defense ...

to report the murder.

References

*Brooks, Lester. ''Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle That Ended an Empire''. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. Japanese military personnel of World War II 1899 births 1949 deaths People from Mie Prefecture {{japan-mil-bio-stub