Shigeo Tsutsui (11 October 1920 – 2014) was a Japanese soldier who joined the

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Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army (), officially known as the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, was a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party, nominally within the structure of the Chinese ...

Biography

Tsutsui was born in

Gunma Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima ...

on 11 October 1920. He joined the

Imperial Japanese Army The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...

and was stationed in

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in an aviation unit. In January 1945, he was captured by the

. He joined the

Japanese People's Emancipation League The was a Japanese resistance organization that operated in communist China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War II.Roth, Andrew (1945). Dilemma in Japan. Little, Brown. pp. 162-188 In 1944, the Japanese People's Emancipation Leag ...

. Tsutsui stayed in China. He helped found the Chinese People's Liberation Army's first flying school. Tsutsui returned to Japan in 1958, and became a farmer. He is survived by his son Kenji Tsutsui.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsutsui, Shigeo 1920 births 2014 deaths Eighth Route Army personnel Japanese farmers Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II Japanese pacifists Japanese prisoners of war