On August 15, 1945, the Japanese army announced its surrender to the whole world, except for some extreme fascist Japanese generals who continued to resist in defiance of the emperor's orders, most of the Japanese generals successively laid down their weapons and raised white flags to the surrendered representatives in various battlefields. On September 11, two days after Okamura Ninji presented the letter of surrender to the Chinese representative He Yingqin, the headquarters of the Allied occupation forces issued the "Order No. 1" for the arrest of war criminals, thus opening the prelude to the arrest, trial, and execution of Japanese war criminals at all levels.
On November 6, under the deployment of the Allied headquarters, the Kuomintang government set up a war criminals handling committee with Qin Dechun as the chairman of the committee, and sent special personnel to search for and try Japanese war criminals.
On December 31, 1946, Japanese war criminal Mitsuyoshi Tsurumaru was shot at the Yuhuatai Execution Ground in Nanjing. Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi first joined the Kyushu Kocang Gendarmerie in 1937, working on assassinations, kidnappings, and secret interrogations, and six years later he was stationed in the Chinese battlefield and became a Captain of the Wuxi Chang'anQiao Gendarmerie. Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi is cruel and takes pleasure in abusing people. He has led a gendarmerie squad to the homes of villagers many times to burn and loot, wantonly abuse women, and often beat and even kill villagers who resist.
One of his cruelest moves was to kill people with wolfhounds. At the craziest time, he had more than 10 wolf dogs that ate human flesh, and every time he caught Chinese, he threw innocent Chinese into the dog pen and let the wolf dogs bite and eventually become the food of the wolf dogs, and he often watched it and called it a "reserved program" to pay tribute to the superiors.
In addition, his many years as a gendarme also made him well versed in the way of torture and torture, and he adopted various extremely cruel methods such as beating with sticks, scalding them with soldering irons, sticking fingers with bamboo sticks, and filling the villagers' stomachs with cold water.
Before the execution, Mitsuyoshi Tsurumaru was still arrogant, shouting at the execution officer, "I am the Emperor Samurai, you can't kill me!" The executioner saw that he was still so arrogant when he was dying, so he grabbed a Thomson submachine gun and fired 20 shots at him in a row, until the bullets in the magazine were exhausted, and he stopped, shouting that Tsurumaru Mitsuyoshi, who was not dead, was beaten into a sieve.
On December 18, 1947, the Nanjing Military Tribunal for the Trial of War Criminals pronounced the sentence: War criminals Takeshi Noda, Toshiaki Xiangjing, and Junyoshi Tanaka were convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. War criminals Takeshi Noda and Toshiaki Xiangjing once engaged in a "killing contest" with a target of 100 people after the Japanese army captured Nanjing. In December 1937, the Japanese "Tokyo Nippon Shimbun" reported in detail in an article entitled "A Record-Breaking Hundred People". During his stay in Nanjing, war criminal Junji Tanaka slaughtered more than 300 civilians.
During the trial, the three stubbornly denied their crimes. However, the court sentenced the three people to executions based on the reports in their hands and the testimony of witnesses present, and a month later, the three men walked to the execution table, and before they were executed, the three seemed to be afraid but there was nothing they could do. In desperation, they asked the executive to smoke another cigarette. The executioner granted their request after asking for instructions.
After smoking, the executioners took up their guns and executed the three war criminals, after they fell to the ground.
In 1947, Gu Shoufu, the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, was being tried by the Nanjing Military Tribunal. After the Surrender of the Japanese Army, because the Allies had been looking for him in the future, he once thought he could avoid trial, but when the Cunning He came to him by the Allies, he wanted to escape the Arrest of the Allies by hiding in the secret passage at home, but when he went out, he was intercepted by the Allies and then extradited to China for trial.
During the trial, Gu Shoufu denied all kinds of criminal facts, but in the face of a large number of factual materials and evidence, he had to accept the resolution that he would be executed. On April 26, 1947, Gu Shoufu was executed at the Yuhuatai Execution Ground in Nanjing.
On the morning of June 11, 1947, Matsumoto was taken to the execution ground and executed. He served as a gendarme during the Japanese invasion of China and was a member of the ideological squad of the Japanese military police stationed in Jiashan. He killed a large number of innocent civilians in Jiashan, and the people he tortured were even more difficult to count, and he was called "the wolf of Jiashan" by the Japanese army, and the local people called him "the living yama king".
At 11:15 a.m. on June 11, 1946, Matsumoto was taken to the Yuhuatai Execution Ground for execution. The people who heard the news stood on both sides of the execution ground, and all applauded and celebrated when they saw the war criminal being taken into the execution ground. The Chinese soldier in charge of the execution first blindfolded Matsumoto's eyes with a handkerchief, then held the gun to the back of his head, pulled the trigger, and the bullet flew out from the forehead. Matsumoto did not die immediately after falling to the ground, but lay on the ground and struggled for a few minutes, and then the executing soldier fired another shot at his right temple, ending the life of this war criminal.
On March 27, 1947, Hisaichi Tanaka, commander of the South China Dispatch Force of the Japanese invasion of China, was executed and killed. By the time of Japan's surrender, Tanaka had been wantonly slaughtering civilians, destroying property, raping and plundering, forcing and torturing people in the theater of operations. After the victory of the War of Resistance, he was arrested by the Nationalist government and prosecuted for war crimes. In May 1946, he was sentenced to death by the Kuomintang Military Tribunal in Guangzhou.
When Tanaka was shot, the executioner shot Tanaka Kuichi in the back with a rifle, and after he was shot, he rushed upwards and fell to the ground. The executioner fired two more shots, and an officer stepped forward to look at it, pointing with one hand, and the executioner fired another shot. The officer waved his hand, and the military trumpet that had closed the line sounded. The crowd of people who still had no end to hatred rushed up, spitting and kicking at this great demon.
Haruki Yonemura was the captain of the Changshu Gendarmerie during the Invasion of China. In 1943, Haruki Yonemura, the commander of the Japanese military police stationed in Changshu, in order to invite merit and promotion, hunted and arrested in Taicang and Changshu on a large scale, using torture such as whipping, stick clamping, irrigation, hanging, fire burning, and dog bites, creating a shocking Jiangnan bloody case, and more than 100 people were buried alive in the wasteland outside the north gate of Changshu alone. The people of Jiangnan hated him to the bone and gave him the nickname "Wolf of Changshu".
In February 1946, Haruki Yonemura and others were arrested. In January 1947, Haruki Yonemura was sentenced to death by the Shanghai Military Tribunal. On June 17 of that year, he was tried in Shanghai, paraded in the streets and then escorted to the execution ground. "Wolf of Changshu" Haruki Yonemura was taken to the execution site for execution.