Kenji Doihara

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Doihara Kenji
Doihara in c. 1941~45
Nickname(s)	Lawrence of Manchuria, a reference to T. E. Lawrence
Born	8 August 1883 Okayama, Japan
Died	23 December 1948(1948-12-23) (aged 65) Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Occupied Japan
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Service / branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1904–1945
Rank	General
Commands	14th Division Fifth Army Seventh Area Army
Battles / wars	Siberian Intervention Second Sino-Japanese War World War II
Awards	Order of the Rising Sun

Kenji Doihara (土肥原 賢二, Doihara Kenji, 8 August 1883 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese army officer. As a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, he was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

As a leading intelligence officer, he played a key role to the Japanese machinations that led to the occupation of large parts of China, the destabilization of the country, and the disintegration of the traditional structure of Chinese society to diminish reaction to the Japanese plans by using highly-unconventional methods. He became the mastermind of the Manchurian drug trade and the sponsor behind many underworld activities in Japanese-occupied China.

After the end of World War II, he was prosecuted for war crimes in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. He was found guilty, sentenced to death, and hanged in December 1948.