Background
Shidei was born in Yamashina, Kyoto prefecture and graduated from the 27th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1915.
四手井 綱正
Shidei was born in Yamashina, Kyoto prefecture and graduated from the 27th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1915.
In 1922, he graduated from the 34th class of the Army Staff College.
From 1934-1935, he held various staff assignments with the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, as served as an Aide-de-camp to the Emperor of Japan from 1935-1939. After a one-year field command with the IJA 23rd Infantry Regiment, he was posted to the Army Staff College as an instructor, and then as its commandant from 1940-1942. He is presumed to have died in a plane crash with Subhas Chandra Bose at Taipei Songshan Airport on August 18, 1945, although there have been numerous conspiracy theories regarding the Death of Subhas Chandra Bose which shed some doubts on the events surrounding his death.