Eighty-four years ago today, the brutal Japanese invading army invaded Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China at that time, and the city of Nanjing was lost. The Japanese invaders carried out a terrible massacre against the defenseless citizens of Nanjing and the disarmed Chinese army, and the city of Nanjing was suddenly bloody and turned into a hell on earth. The massacre lasted for more than 2 months, brutally killing more than 300,000 of our compatriots, and the Japanese invaders completely became beasts that destroyed humanity.
National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre
After the end of World War II, the vast majority of Japanese war criminals who created and participated in the Nanjing Massacre were tried justly and punished by law. For example, on November 12, 1948, matsui Ishigen, commander of the dispatch army of the Japanese Central China Front, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East convicted Matsui Ishigen as a Class A war criminal and sentenced him to death by hanging. Gu Shoufu, commander of the Japanese Sixth Division, who was directly involved in the massacre of soldiers and civilians in Nanjing, was sentenced to hanging and executed in Nanjing in March 1947, and a series of Japanese war criminals and executioners were punished as they deserved. However, the biggest culprit and culprit of the Nanjing Massacre escaped the trial and punishment of the law and actually lived to the age of 94.
King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace
Asaka Palace Hatohiko, also known as King Asaka Palace Hatohiko, was a Japanese army general and imperial family, the biggest culprit and culprit of the Nanjing Massacre. The uncle of Emperor Hirohito, one of the few professional soldiers in the Japanese imperial family, was known for his radicalism and support for imperial soldiers. In 1922, Asakamiya Went to France to study, and was crippled due to a car accident, but it did not affect his radicalism and position in the army, and he successively served as the commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade and the commander of the Guards Division. After Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China, Hatohiko Asakamiya was appointed commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army on December 2, 1937, replacing Matsui Ishigen, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Central China Front, who was recuperating from lung disease, as the provisional commander-in-chief of the Japanese occupation of Nanjing. On December 13, Nanjing fell, and commanders led by General Matsui and King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace were stationed in the city of Nanjing. King Hatohiko of kamiya signed a secret, "The Secret Order to Be Destroyed After Reading": "Kill all the captives!" Then a series of killing orders were issued one after another, the simplest and direct only four words "kill all", his orders were conveyed layer by layer and thoroughly implemented, directly leading to the heinous beastly behavior of the Japanese army after entering the city, burning and looting, and doing no evil. Subsequently, AsakaMiya Hatohiko revised the original order for Japanese officers and soldiers to camp outside Nanjing, announcing that the Japanese troops outside the city could choose camps in Nanjing at will. Under this order, it was as if the cage of the beast had been opened, and the Japanese troops, like a group of hungry and tightly wound wolves, rampaged through the streets and alleys of Nanjing, and the massacre and various atrocities were further expanded. Later, in the Judgment of the International Tribunal for the Far East, it was written: "The Japanese soldiers came to insult the city like a group of indulged barbarians."
Nanjing Massacre
Because the Nanjing Massacre made the Japanese army infamous, the following year Both King Hatohiko and Matsui Ishione were recalled to Japan. Matsui Ishigen retired, but Hatsuhiko Asakamiya remained at the High Command as a military senate officer, and was promoted to general in 1939 and awarded the Order of the Golden Eagle of the First Class in 1942. When the Japanese army was defeated in various battlefields from 1944 to 1945, he strongly advocated a decisive battle with the United States and other anti-fascist Allied forces on the mainland, fighting scorched earth, preparing to burn allied jade stones in an attempt to resist.
The first person to be tried in the Tokyo trial regarding the Nanjing incident must be King Hatohiko of asaka Palace. However, out of its own interests, the United States, although it interrogated Hatsuhiko Asakamiya, did not hold the emperor responsible for the war. In this way, it was naturally impossible for the occupying forces to arrest and prosecute the imperial family as suspects of war criminals, and prince Hatohiko Asakamiya escaped the trial of history after the war with his special status as a member of the royal family. Asakamiya continued his life of spending time and drinking, and later became the honorary president of the "Japan Golf Club", swinging easily between green mountains and rivers, and finally died at the age of 94.
Although Hatohiko Asaka has escaped the punishment of the law and the judgment of history, he will never escape the punishment of justice, moral condemnation and the torment of conscience. On December 13, on the occasion of the National Memorial Day of the Nanjing Massacre, we told the people the truth of history, we are not trying to continue hatred, but we must not forget history. All the Chinese must not forget this executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of Chinese and committed heinous crimes against the Chinese people--AsakaMiya Hatohiko!