[QUOTE=Pindar]Yamashite, the Tiger of Singapore is fairly impressive.

With a numerically inferior force, he soundly beat Britain's Percival in Malaysia and followed it up with taking the prize Singapore itself netting some 100,000 prisoners. Due to in-house rivalries Yamashita was afterwards assigned to secondary front duties for the remainder of the war, if I recall correctly.

He was really good indeed.

In the later stage of war was defending the Philippines capitulating with the rest of his troops on Luzon.

My favourite naval commander is Raizo ( sp ?) Tanaka - an excellent commander of destroyer squadrons.