Hideyoshi Obata (2 April 1890 – 11 August 1944) was a Japanese military officer and General in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Biography[]
Hideyoshi Obata was born on 2 April 1890 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. In 1911, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army cavalry, and from 1923 to 1934 he was a military attache to the United Kingdom and British India.
In March 1938, he was reassigned to the army's aviation, leading the Japanese 5th Air Group on Taiwan at the start of World War II. On 18 February 1944, Obata was given command of the Japanese 31st Army in the Mariana Islands, and on 11 August 1944 he committed ritual seppuku suicide after Japan lost the Battle of Guam.