Takayama Shinobu
Takayama Shinobu is the commander of the returning 14th Army following its defeat in Balintawak Blitz, hell-bent on crushing the rebellion and bringing the Philippines back into Japanese hands whatever the cost
In-Game Biography
The Emperor's men march to wherever He decrees they are needed most. As He would have it, Takayama Shinobu departed Tokyo for a reunion with the land of the dead.
For the Philippine Islands now, as it had then, offers nothing but death. This lesson he'd learned as a lowly colonel under General Masaharu Homma. He'd seen better men than he succumb to its jungles and the bandits within. Heard their pitiful wails in the hospitals and the medical tents, teenagers-turned-conscripts begging for aspirin, their parents, a quick and painless death. Held their coffins before planes carried what remained of them home. No glory awaited the Empire's sons here, and such a place was worth only purgation, through and uncompromising, lest any more of them fell.
If only its generals learned the very same, rather than vaciliating between half measures for decades. Then the 14th Army wouldn't have died far away from home. Its commander, Masazumi Inada, wouldn't have gutted himself in shame. Alas, Takayama returns with an army reborn and directives no clearer: pacify the Islands, by any means necessary.