For a long time, many people believe that after the Japanese army captured Nanjing, it carried out a brutal massacre, and this order was issued by Matsui Ishigen, but it was not. At that time, the supreme commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Commander Matsui Ishigen, was the commander of the Japanese attack on Nanjing, but before the campaign was launched, this devil suddenly fell ill with tuberculosis and a high fever, and he simply got out of bed, of course, he could not command the troops to fight normally.
When the Japanese base camp received this news, it immediately sent King Hatohiko of asaka Palace to Nanjing to take over matsui Ishigen's command of the battle. Asakamiya Hatohiko was the uncle of Emperor Hirohito of Japan and the eighth son of Prince Asahina of Hisagi Palace, graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School (20th period) on May 27, 1908, was awarded the rank of second lieutenant of infantry on December 25 of the same year, was attached to the 2nd Guards Infantry Regiment, graduated from the 26th Class of the Army University on November 27, 1914, and went to France to study in 1922, before succeeding Matsui Ishigen, his position was commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army of the Japanese Army, with the rank of lieutenant general.
On December 10, 1937, the Japanese army launched an attack on Nanjing, and on the thirteenth day, Nanjing fell. After Entering the city of Nanjing with the seriously ill Matsui Ishigen, King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace immediately signed a secret order of "confidentiality, and destruction after reading", which was: "Kill all Chinese prisoners!" "This order was swiftly implemented and intensified the massacre.
On February 18, 1938, due to the infamy of the Japanese army due to the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese base camp abolished the Shanghai dispatch military structure, and both King Hatohiko and Matsui Ishigen were recalled to Japan. After returning to Japan, Matsui Ishigen retired from the army, but King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace remained in the high command as a military senator, and in 1939 he was promoted to general and served in the high command of the Japanese army.
On November 12, 1945, the Tokyo Trial sentenced Hideki Tojo and seven other war criminals to be hanged, including Matsui Ishigen, and King Hatohiko asakamiya escaped punishment because of his special status as a royal family, but was deprived of his imperial status.
After that, the devil spent all day drinking, and later became the honorary president of the "Japan Golf Club", easily swinging between the green mountains and rivers, and finally dying at the age of 94. Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, Takashi Takashi Takasa, and Major General Iinuma, who had accompanied him in the Nanjing Massacre, were not punished in any way, and they all lived to the age of 94 before they died of illness.