The Sankei newspaper reported that a secret group of advisers to Taiwanese leader Chiang Kai-shek, which included an Imperial Japanese Army officer, devised a counteroffensive strategy against China in the 1960s.
The Japanese newspaper added that this document, compiled in 1965 by Koichi Itogoi, a former lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army, was found in France by a relative of the deceased soldier.
It is known that Itogi served in the Japanese army in Manchuria and Singapore and returned to Japan after the end of World War II, but in 1951 he left for Taiwan, where he became a military adviser to its leader.
The above plan included 3 stages, each of which contained a detailed explanation of the deployment of air, sea and land forces, as well as the required amount of ammunition and food.
According to the plan, the counterattack operation was to last a month and a half, and it was assumed that a sudden landing operation would be carried out in the Chinese province of Fujian, after which the territory of the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui should be stormed.
Formal relations between the mainland Chinese central government and the Taiwanese authorities were severed in 1949 after the defeat of the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek in a civil war with the Communist Party of China and the redeployment of these forces to Taiwan. In the late 1980s, commercial and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed.
Source: RIA Novosti