[1] Wachi encouraged warlords in south China, especially Guangxi province, to revolt against the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek based in Nanjing.

His main targets were Li Zongren and Xing Zhanfei, but his efforts to create a collaborationist state in south China were ultimately not successful.

[5] In February 1942, Wachi was transferred to become chief-of-staff of the IJA 14th Army in the Philippines, which participated in the final assault on the American fortress island of Corregidor.

[6] Wachi was ordered back to the Japanese home islands after the loss of the Philippines to Allied forces in 1945, and was assigned to command the Kempeitai in Hiroshima – considerable demotion.

After the surrender of Japan, Wachi was arrested by the American occupation authorities and charged with war crimes in connection with the actions of Japanese military personnel in the Philippines.