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Note: This is a draft for a "List of suicides in Imperial Japan" article (inspired off of the "list of suicides in Nazi Germany" article)
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This is a list of suicides in Imperial Japan. Many prominent members of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy died by suicide during the Surrender of Japan and V-J Day.[1]
Suicides occurred in the Japanese Home Islands, unless stated otherwise.
Person was a member of the Imperial Japanese Army | |
* | Person was a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy |
† | Died by suicide in prison custody |
Person | Method | Location | Date | Age |
---|---|---|---|---|
Knife | Rabaul, Bismarck Archipelago | Sep 10, 1947 | 57 years, 85 days | |
Cyanide poisoning | Xinjing, Manchukuo | Aug 20, 1945 | 54 years, 206 days | |
Tokyo | Aug 15, 1945 | 58 years, 175 days | ||
Poisoning | Shanghai, Republic of China | Apr 19, 1946 | 62 years, 16 days | |
Kamikaze | USS Braine (DD-630), near Okinawa | May 27, 1945 | 17 years, 78 days | |
Seppuku | Okinawa | June 22, 1945 | 50 years, 154 days | |
Intramuros, Manila | Feb 26, 1945 | 49 years, 361 days | ||
Firearm | Johor, British Malaya | Aug 19, 1945 | 41 years, 42 days | |
Firearm | Tokyo | Aug 15, 1945 | 33 years, 140 days | |
Occupied Japan | Nov 30, 1945 | 69 years, 204 days | ||
Tinian, Mariana Islands | Aug 2, 1945 | 54 years, 313 days | ||
Seppuku | Tokyo | Sep 13, 1945 | 61 years, 4 days | |
Seppuku | Second Philippine Republic | Aug 10, 1945 | 52 years, 114 days | |
Seppuku | Tarawa, Gilbert Islands | May 2, 1945 | 55 years, 0 days | |
Kamikaze | Second Philippine Republic | Nov 25, 1944 | 28 years, 346 days | |
Seppuku | Tokyo | Sep 3, 1945 | 54 years, 97 days | |
Firearm | Saipan, South Seas Mandate | July 6, 1944 | 57 years, 103 days | |
Seppuku | Peleliu Island, Palau | Nov 24, 1944 | 46 years, 306 days | |
State of Burma | July 21, 1945 | 36 years, 184 days | ||
Seppuku | Guam, United States | Aug 11, 1944 | 54 years, 131 days | |
Firearm | New Guinea, Australia | Jan 21, 1943 | 54 years, 292 days | |
Seppuku | Tinian, Mariana Islands | Aug 1, 1944 | Unknown | |
Kamikaze | USS Bunker Hill, near Okinawa | May 11, 1944 | 22 years, 200 days | |
Kamikaze | Tokyo | Aug 16, 1945 | 54 years, 75 days | |
Firearm | Okinawa | June 13, 1945 | 54 years, 67 days | |
Seppuku | Tinian, Mariana Islands | Aug 2, 1944 | 47 years, 167 days | |
Seppuku | Saipan, Mariana Islands | July 10, 1944 | 53 years, 251 days | |
Kamikaze | Leyte Gulf, Second Philippine Republic | Oct 25, 1944 | 23 years, 34 days | |
Tokyo | Dec 13, 1945 | 85 years, 175 days | ||
Seppuku | Tokyo | Aug 15, 1945 | 33 years, 319 days | |
Tatsuji Suga† | Borneo, Dutch East Indies | Sep 16, 1945 | 59 years, 359 days | |
Firearm | Tokyo | Sep 12, 1945 | 65 years, 254 days | |
Shizuichi Tanaka | Firearm | Tokyo | Aug 24, 1945 | 57 years, 327 days |
Kamikaze | Kadena | May 11, 1945 | 22 years, 226 days | |
Kamikaze | Okinawa | Aug 15, 1945 | 55 years, 181 days | |
Mitsuru Ushijima | Seppuku | Kagoshima | June 22, 1945 | 57 years, 326 days |
Kamikaze | USS Bunker Hill, near Okinawa | May 11, 1945 | 21 years, 44 days | |
Teiichi Yoshimoto | Tokyo | Sep 14, 1945 | 58 years, 175 days |
Other unrelated random stuff:
- ^ Yalman, Richard (28 July 2016). "Japanese Mass Suicides". Atomic Hertiage Foundation. Retrieved 2023-12-31.