At the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, before the headquarters of the Ground Component Command (equivalent to an army group) was stood up, there was that commander who said he would take full responsibility and, saying so, pulled into the Tohoku region every last unit he could from across the country, and tha…
At the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, before the headquarters of the 'Ground Component Command (equivalent to an army-level command)' was inaugurated, the Chief of Staff, JGSDF who said 'I'll take full responsibility' and pulled out every unit he could from all over the country to dispatch them urgently to the disaster area should have been General Ryoichi Oriki of the Ground Self-Defense Force or General Eiji Kimizuka of the Ground Self-Defense Force, and General Yoshifumi Hibako (Hibako Yoshifumi) of the Ground Self-Defense Force should have been Chief of Staff a little earlier than that. In reality, Mr. Oriki was then the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, and Mr. Kimizuka was the commander of the Self-Defense Forces' first Joint Task Force for disaster relief (JTF... Joint Task Force).
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.