Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
Kesago Nakajima (中島 今朝吾, Nakajima Kesago, 15 June 1881 – 28 October 1945) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, who has been implicated in the Nanjing massacre of December 1937.
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