Senjūrō Hayashi was a commander for the Chosen Army of Japan during the event that was a pretext for the invasion of what part of China?
Senjūrō Hayashi Senjūrō Hayashi (林 銑十郎 , Hayashi Senjūrō , 23 February 1876 – 4 February 1943) was an Imperial Japanese Army commander of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea during the Mukden Incident and the invasion of Manchuria, and a Japanese politician and the 33rd Prime Minister of Japan from 2 February 1937 to 4 June 1937.
Ningdu uprising The Ningdu revolt (), also known as the Ningdu uprising (), was a rebellion by the 26th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China in Ningdu County, Jiangxi Province on December 14, 1931. 17,000 soldiers of the 26th Route Army defected from the Kuomintang to the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Communist Party of China.