Kurihara Yasuhide

Kurihara Yasuhide was an Imperial Japanese Army officer and lieutenant of infantry.

Biography

Born November 17, 1908, in Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture with a honseki registry in Tokyo. His father was Col. Kurihara Isamu, originally from Saga Prefecture. When Yasuhide was young, he lived with his father who was stationed in Asahikawa. He had a close family relationship Saitō Ryū.
Kurihara graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1929. He was politically active in Kōdōha circles, and hoped for a National Socialist revolution of the kind advocated by Kita Ikki in order to save the country from what he perceived to be the corruption of the zaibatsu and the incompetence of the military careerists.
Kurihara had a habit of saying "yaru yaru", such that he was called Lt. Yaru Yaru.
Kurihara played a major role in the February 26 incident in 1936. On February 29, three days after the incident, he was ordered to relinquish his court rank and was stripped of his medals. Kurihara was fusilladed on July 12.