(born the January 4th 1882, dead the January 8th 1949) was the Head of State major of the Armée imperial Japanese woman WITH 1944 to 1945, after the dismissal of Hideki Tojo by Hirohito.

During the Years 1920, Umezu was a member of the Tosei-Hai (group of control) carried out by the general Kazushige Ugaki with the assistance of the generals Koiso Kuniaki, Hajime Sugiyama, Tetsuzan Nagata and Hideki Tojo. Their faction was moderate contrary to the Koda-ha (action group) guided by Sadao Araki and whose vision was more radical.

Named to the Supreme council of war in 1944, Umezu, like the Minister for the Army Korechika Anami and the chief of staff of the navy Soemu Toyoda, was opposed to a rendering in August 1945. It wished the respect of four conditions: the disarmament of the troops by the Japanese authorities, the judgment of the criminals by the Japanese authorities, the absence of occupying forces in Japanese ground and the safeguarding of the imperial mode and the Emperor. Failing this, he thought that the soldiers were to continue the combat and to inflict heavy losses with allied at the time of their unloading in Japanese ground. According to him, this strategy made it possible Japan to better negotiate the peace and the conditions of post-war period.

The Empereur Showa sliced finally while being satisfied with the last condition and Japan capitulated. With the Shigemitsu minister, Uzemu signed the documents of rendering on board USS Missouri the September 2nd 1945.

After the war, Umezu was judged for War crimes just like the other key personalities of Japan. He was condemned by the international military Tribunal for the Far East to the imprisonment to life the November 12th 1948 but succumbed of disease some time afterwards, in January 1949.