The Paper's reporter Yuan Jie
The Nanjing Folk Anti-Japanese War Museum, located south of Nanjing, this week unveiled a new exhibit: the original of the Tokyo Daily News newspaper reporting on the atrocities of the Japanese army invading China.
The Tokyo Daily News, which reported on the atrocities committed by the Japanese army invading China by "beheading a hundred people." The Surging News reporter Yuan Jie remake
On November 18, the www.thepaper.cn saw this newspaper published on December 13, 1937 in the museum, and the report on the "100 People Beheading" was issued by the commissioner at the "Foothills of the Purple Mountains". Purple Mountain is located in Nanjing, and on the day the newspaper was published, Nanjing fell.
According to the report, xiang jing toshiaki and Noda two lieutenants who killed a hundred Chinese first, the "score" was 106:105, and agreed to extend the game. In the photo distributed, two executioners stand with sabers. In addition to the report of "beheading a hundred people", this newspaper also recorded the attacks of the Japanese invading Japanese army on Nanjing Andemen, Zhongshanmen, and Guanghuamen.
Wu Xianbin, the museum's director, told The Paper that he got the newspaper from a Japanese friend two years ago. Photos of "100 people beheading" have been circulated before, but the original Japanese newspapers that report "100 people beheading" are rare. After the newspaper was exhibited, a friend from a Tibetan circle told him that he also had an original copy of the "Tokyo Daily News" that published the "Hundred People Beheading" report, which was published on December 14 of that year, "The continuous reporting and advocacy of the inhumane 'Hundred People Beheading' reflected to a certain extent the war fanaticism in Japan at that time." ”
Nanjing Folk Anti-Japanese War Museum. The Paper's reporter Yuan Jie tu
The Paper's search revealed that the Tokyo Ilichi Shimbun was founded in 1872 and later merged with other newspapers, making it the predecessor of the current Mainichi Shimbun in Japan.
According to a previous report by The Paper, in 1947, Professor Gao Wenbin (1922-2020) of Shanghai Maritime University, who had personally experienced the trial of Japan's leading Class-A war criminals in World War II, discovered the "Hundred People Beheading" report of the Tokyo Daily News in Japan and immediately sent it to the Nanjing Military Tribunal for the Trial of Japanese War Criminals Invading China.
An article published in 2019 by the journal "Japanese Invasion of China Nanjing Massacre Research" recorded that in May 1947, when the War Criminals Handling Committee of the Nationalist Government was discussing the extradition of war criminals, it decided that "the murderers of the murder competition can be extradited first", and the Ministry of National Defense called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Takeshi Noda and Toshiaki Xiangjing of the Katatong Troops, the former killed 105 people, the latter killed 106 people, and the facts and photos of the two were published in the "Tokyo Daily News", and they were extradited for trial. In January 1948, Xiang Toshiaki and Noda were executed in Nanjing.
The Tokyo Daily News, which published the report "100 People Chop", is one of the more than 6,000 pieces in the collection of the Nanjing Folk Anti-Japanese War Museum. The museum was founded in 2006, the director Wu Xianbin once ran the business, the museum is located on the two floors of the previously his factory, the rest of the floors are currently rented, subsidizing the free opening of the museum operation.
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