Kawane was the transportation officer delegated by Homma to organise the evacuation of the Bataan POWs....original press photo from 1948 featuring Major General Yoshitaka Kawane(left) and Col Kurartar Hirano were sentenced to be hanged for the 1942 Bataan death march
http://www.chaplainsatwar.com/BataanDeathMarch.shtml
...Major General Kawane Yoshitake, the head transportation officer for the 14th Army in charge of planning for the movement of prisoners, initially made preparations for only 25,000 detainees.In fact, 78,000 troops surrendered to the Japanese.
The captors also were somewhat unaware of the physical condition of the prisoners. The Japanese remained ignorant of the impact disease, especially malaria, had made on the opposition. After the war, General Homma explained, "We were vaguely aware that [the] food situation in the defense force was not good, but we judged that [the Luzon Force] could hold out several months longer at least as far as food was concerned."This claim seems potentially dubious, as Homma sent a telegram demanding surrender on January 9 which read "The question is how long you will be able to resist. You have already cut rations by half. . . . Your prestige and honor have been upheld. However, in order to avoid needless bloodshed and save your . . . troops you are advised to surrender." That said, Homma defended his actions after the war with a plausible explanation. He asked why he would have launched an attack expected to bring heavy Japanese casualties on April 3 if he knew there was only a week's supply of rations left for the Americans and Filipinos? Homma claimed that he would "simply have sat back and waited for an offer of surrender."
Furthermore, Homma did not anticipate the rapid fall of Bataan after the Good Friday offensive. He had estimated that it would take until the end of April to secure surrender. It took less than a week. The Japanese had lost three weeks of preparation time to care for twice the anticipated number of prisoners, of which a large percentage too sick, weak, or wounded to make the trip out of Bataan on foot....