What happened to the Japanese officers who provoked the Lugou Bridge incident?

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On July 7, 1937, Mutaguchi Lian, then the commander of the First Wing of the Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Infantry Brigade in North China in North China, also inspected the Japanese troops conducting "exercises" at Lugou Bridge. That night, under the pretext that a soldier was "missing" (this person's name was Kikujiro Shimura, who temporarily left the team due to diarrhea and returned soon after), the Japanese army asked to enter Wanping Castle for a "search", which was rejected by the officers and men of Wanping Castle. So Mu tiankou ordered the Japanese army to attack the Chinese army, deliberately provoking the "July 7" incident. Later, when recalling the "July 7" incident, he even more bluntly declared: "If I want to talk about it, it is my responsibility." Because the first bullet fired at the Lugou Bridge caused the war was me. "I provoked the Lugou Bridge incident, and later the incident was further expanded, leading to the Lugou Bridge incident."

Due to Mutaguchi's "outstanding" performance at Lugou Bridge, he was promoted from Daisaku to major general and lieutenant general.

In March 1944, Mutaguchi led 150,000 Japanese troops to fight in Burma and India. In order to ensure logistical supplies, Mu tiankou had a whim, so that the Japanese army plundered a large number of Burmese cattle as a means of transport, who knew that Burmese cattle were not good at bearing weight and could not transport supplies. Mu tiankou was defeated by the Combined Forces of China, the United States, and Britain, and some Japanese division commanders did not obey his orders and led their troops out of the battlefield without authorization. Mutaguchi was dismissed from the military as a result. Nevertheless, he confidently declared that he was personally completely right and that the reason for his failure was the "incompetence of his subordinates."

Mutaguchi, as the primary person responsible for the defeat in the Battle of Imphal, was reprimanded by his colleagues, relatives and friends, and some even said to him: "Commit suicide by caesarean section, what face is alive in the world!" "But he never committed suicide. Because of too much blame, Mutaguchi's old age was spent in painful torture. He said: "I feel very painful and uncomfortable living in the midst of condemnation. Suffering all day long, there is no peace for a moment. Source: Xinhua Net