Hata Shunroku
Field Marshal Hata Shunroku
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Years of service	1901-1945
Rank	Field Marshal
Commands held	China Expeditionary Army
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War World War II

Shunroku Hata (畑俊六, Hata Shunroku, 26 July 1879 - 10 May 1962), was a Japanese general.

Hata was minister of war in 1939. He was commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in China in 1941.^[1]

He was the last surviving Japanese military officer with a rank of Field Marshal. He was jailed at the end of World War Two and released in 1955.

• Order of the Rising Sun
• Order of the Golden Kite

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