Im Looking for any Information on A Japanese Army Lt. Col. Ichie Fuji, Only info I found is he was commander of the 12th Engineer Regiment in 1941, any information would be great, Thank You
Ah, a good puzzle. Searched for awhile using Ichie Fuji to no avail, then tried his unit and found his name was spelt slightly differently: From: Battle of Kota Bharu - Wikipedia I dropped the prefix to his rank and tried other lower officer ranks. A detachment were in Borneo / Sarawak: The Battle for Miri and Sarawak, Borneo, WW II There is an older article, behind a registration wall: Kota Bahru | PDF | Empire Of Japan | Division (Military) Now back to using Fujii, though it made very little difference, except for a possible trace using Google: See: The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 17, No. 5, Bibliography of Asian Studies 1957 (Sep., 1958), pp. 722-740 (19 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2942494 And a 1946 occupation list refers to: From: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ocr/nlm:nlmuid-101712251X1-leaf The dearth of hits on the 12th Engineer Regiment may be explained as it was prefixed Independent (so abbreviated to IER) as a Japanese document was cited and a Japanese member of another WW2 website helped, and this helps to explain the dearth: From: Independent engineer regiments - Axis History Forum That thread also refers to using JACAR; which is: Japan Center for Asian Historical Records Hopefully this helps and without too many "rabbit holes". I did note when using Google just on names Ichi was nearly always prefixed with another first name and with a hyphen between.
