Makoto Matsutani (松谷 誠, Matsutani Makoto) (January 13, 1903 – October 7, 1998) was a Japanese military officer, and military secretary to the prime minister of Japan.
Career
In November 1944, Colonel Matsutani became the secretary to
Sugiyama Hajime, the newly appointed Army Minister. In this role he began to consult with others and a four-man team (Matsutani,
Toshikazu Kase, Matsudaira,[1] and Rear Admiral
Sokichi Takagi[2]) put together a secret report recommending practical strategies for handling the defeat of Japan.
When Matsutani retired he was commanding officer of the Northern Self-Defence Force.[3]
Views
In a textbook issued to officers at the National Defence College in May 1973, Matsutani expressed the view that in the
Vietnam War the Americans had underestimated the power of nationalism, as they were fighting from a purely ideological perspective,[3] and said that the Japanese should learn this lesson.[3]
Bibliography
Makoto Matsutani (1980). Dai Tōa sensō shūshi no shinsō (The True Account of the Conclusion of the Greater East Asian War). Tokyo: Fuyō Shobō.[4]
References
^Forrest E. Morgan (2003). Compellence and the Strategic Culture of Imperial Japan: Implications for Coercive Diplomacy in the Twenty-first Century. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 242, footnote 60.
ISBN9780275977801.
^Hoi Sik Jang (2007). Japanese Imperial Ideology, Shifting War Aims and Domestic Propaganda During the Pacific War of 1941--1945.
ISBN9780549267065.
^Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism. Robert J. Maddox (Editor). University of Missouri Press. 2007. p. 39, footnote 56.
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