WFumitaka Konoe was the eldest son and heir of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe and the 13th generation descendant of Emperor Go-Yōzei. He served as First Lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II, and died in detention in the Soviet Union.
WKoshi Kurumizawa was the pen-name of a writer of detective fiction in Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Shimizu Masatarō.
WToshio Ōtsu was the last Director of the Karafuto Agency. After the end of his tenure, the Agency was abolished with the incorporation of Karafuto into the Soviet Union. He was Governor of Saitama Prefecture (1942–1943). He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo. After the defeat of the Empire of Japan in World War II, he was interned by the Soviet authorities.
WRoad prisons were a type of a prison in Russia, used to temporarily house inmates on their way to Siberia, Sakhalin Island, or other places of far-off detention. This temporary imprisonment system stretched from the 18th century, at the birth of the Russian Empire, to more modern times in the Soviet Union, and for some, arguably to the modern era.
WRyūzō Sejima was a Japanese army officer and business leader.
WTsunenori Shimizu was a career military officer and a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
WSōsuke Uno was a Japanese politician who was briefly Prime Minister of Japan in 1989, the first Prime Minister who came from Shiga Prefecture.
WJun Ushiroku was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
WOtozō Yamada was a career officer and general in the Imperial Japanese Army, serving from the Russo-Japanese War to the end of World War II.
WAaron Isaakovich Zundelevich was a Jewish Russian revolutionary narodnik.