Masaharu Homma (本間雅晴 Honma Masaharu,
January 28,
1888 in
Sado,
Niigata Prefecture,
Japan -
April 3,
1946 in
Los Baños, Laguna,
Philippines), was the Japanese Lieutenant General in charge of the 14th Army and tasked with the
invasion of the Philippines during World War II. Homma, who was an amateur playwright and also known as the Poet General, had long opposed the war. He had a deep respect and some understanding of the West, having spent eight years with the British, which included serving in France in 1918 with the
British Expeditionary Force. After the fall of
Nanking, he declared publicly that "unless peace is achieved immediately it will be disastrous".
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