On January 13, 1942, the world anti-fascist war entered a stalemate. Following the publication of the Declaration of the United States in Washington on January 1, 1942, at the initiative of the United States, at the initiative of the United States, the United States, the United Kingdom and China, the nine countries occupied by Germany in Europe met in Britain and issued the Declaration on the Punishment of German Atrocities, claiming that the post-war international community would take joint action to punish the atrocities committed by Nazi fascists.
Although China was not a victim of German fascism, it still sent Kim Wensi, then minister to the Netherlands, to attend the meeting. Jin Wensi submitted to the general assembly the declaration of the Chinese government on punishing the atrocities of the Japanese army that he personally drafted, hoping that "the atrocities of the Japanese army should be punished according to the same principle" and won the approval of European countries.
In view of the prevalence of the crimes committed by the Japanese aggressors in China, it is difficult to pursue them one by one, and he believes: "In the future, when requesting the punishment of war criminals, it is not appropriate to have too many [the number] of war criminals, and it is advisable to select those whose circumstances are particularly serious and hateful, designate the responsible personnel, and demand that they be handed over for trial." However, as for the "two Japanese officers in the Battle of Nanjing," he clearly believed that their "circumstances were serious, the evidence was conclusive, and the crowd cut their teeth" and must be severely punished.
The "Two Japanese Officers in the Battle of Nanjing" refers to to Toshiaki Xiangjing and Takeshi Noda, who played the "Hundred Men Chop" competition. This is the first time that the Chinese government has publicly announced its desire to bring the "hundred-man beheading" murderer to trial.
The crimes of these two people are irrefutable, and they have shocked the world as early as the time of the crime, and have been reported and reprinted by newspapers all over the world. At that time, the Tokyo Daily News reported on November 31, December 4, December 6, and December 13, 1937. In order to show the "deeds" of the two, the Tokyo Ilbo Shimbun reported on December 31 that a group photo of the two holding sabers was also distributed.
On January 1, 1938, the English Miller's Review of the Shanghai Concession reprinted the news of the killing contest between Mingtoshi Andi Izumi in the Nihonichi Shimbun. Newspapers in other countries have also reported on the incident.
After the publication of the Declaration on the Punishment of German Atrocities and the Declaration of the Chinese Government on punishing the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government soon set up a full-time investigation agency and initiated the investigation of Japan's war crimes with a view to prosecuting war criminals in the future.
On February 23, 1944, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also drew up a "list of war criminals", including 32 criminals, including "100 people beheading" murderers.
In August 1945, the Japanese army was defeated and surrendered. The Nationalist government immediately began to try war criminals, and the Nanjing Massacre was tried as a special case. The Ministry of Justice and Administration of the Nationalist Government proposed a list of Japanese war criminals in the Nanjing Massacre, listing Xiang Imei as a war criminal, but Noda has not yet been included.
It was not until two years later, in 1947, that Gao Wenbin, then an official of the Chinese Prosecutor's Office of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, found photographs of Xiang Imei and Takeshi Noda holding sabers in the wartime Tokyo Daily News, accompanied by a written report, which was conclusive. However, by that time, the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for the Nanjing Massacre had been completed, and this evidence could no longer be presented. In addition, Xiang's and Noda's ranks were low, far from qualifying for trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Gao Wenbin was not discouraged. He immediately made three copies of the newspaper, one of which remained in the office of the Supervision Department, and the other two of which were forwarded back to China to the Military Tribunal for the Trial of War Criminals in Nanjing.
After receiving Gao Wenbin's email, Shi Meiyu, president of the Nanjing Military Tribunal for the Trial of War Criminals, immediately reported it to the Nationalist Government's Ministry of National Defense, requesting that the two be extradited to China for trial. The War Criminals Handling Committee of the National Government decided to immediately arrest and extradite the two men, and sent a telegram to the Chinese delegation in Japan ordering them to submit an application to the Headquarters of the Allied Forces for their arrest.
As a result, finding the whereabouts of the two became the new job of the 13-man advance team, China's only military force in Japan. But where are these two people?
In 1941, the Pacific War broke out. The 16th Division of Nakajima Imai, the main force of the Japanese 14th Army stationed in the Philippines, took part in the Battle of Leyte Island, with their respective Akitoshi and Noda' division. After the war, the two appeared prominently on the list of Americans as prisoners and were repatriated to Japan after the war. In other words, the last foothold of the two is in Japan.
However, after the repatriation, the two seemed to smell danger and did not return to their hometown of Kagoshima, so that the gendarmes who were looking for them pounced. The international gendarmes could only search like a needle in a haystack in the vast area of Japan. In August 1947, at a small market in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, a 13-man advance team finally found Noda Andi, and through him found another killer, Toshiaki Xiangjing.
Three months later, the two killers were sent back to China and tried by a Chinese military tribunal a month later along with two other Japanese war criminals, Junji Tanaka and Tan Takahashi. On the same day, Shi Meiyu was sentenced to death for "the joint continuous massacre of prisoners and non-combatants during the battle" between the two men.
On January 28, 1948, several gunshots ended the announcement of the two murderous demons, and finally gave an account to the indomitable souls who had lost their lives under their knives.
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