It's announced that Governor Isogai Rensuke will stand down. He leaves early in the New Year and is replaced by Lieutenant-General Tanaka Hisakazu.
In February 1945 Isogai's associate Colonel Noma, head of the Kempeitai, will follow Isogai to Japan, to be replaced by Lieutenant-Colonel Kanazawa Asao, who today finds assistant to the Chief of the Staff in the Governor's Office.
This change in personnel at the top probably stems from the fall of Isogai's patron, Premier Tojo Hideki, who lost power on July 18, 1944 as a result of the fall of Saipan to the Americans.
Source:
Philip Snow, The Fall of Hong Kong, 2003, 210
Note: This source, which includes a reume of his army career, gives December 16 as the date of the end of Isogai's tenure:
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