This person was a Class A war criminal of the Nanjing Massacre, but said that the massacre had nothing to do with him and did not stop it because of illness
The world anti-fascist war is the most tragic war in the history of the world so far, whether it is the European theater or the Asian theater, this war has brought to mankind, a scar that is difficult to heal for a long time, for the battlefield in Asia is mainly in China, China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and has played a great role in the victory of the world anti-fascist. The crimes they committed in China during the Japanese invasion of China will always be in the hearts of every Chinese, and today we will talk about a figure who played a key role in the Nanjing Massacre.
The culprit who innocently murdered 300,000 Chinese compatriots in Nanjing was the Class A war criminal of the Nanjing Massacre; Matsui Ishigen, matsui Ishigen was born in Nagoya Domain, Japan, a family known as a sinologist Matsui Takekuni. Therefore, he was very familiar with the Chinese written language from childhood, it can be said that he was a "China Pass" Whose ancestor was once a famous general of the Japanese Warring States, Matsui Ishigen, he was born with a short stature, and he was weak and sickly, and his personality was stubborn. Matsui's ancestors were generals for generations, and he succeeded the samurai men as the driving force for his military service.
Matsui Ishigen was a period of great social change in Japan, before the Meiji Restoration, their family could still receive samurai, but after the Meiji Restoration, there was no samurai, and the family lived and the economic situation was very poor. Some of the old samurai clan opened schools in Tokyo dedicated to training military personnel, and Matsui Ishigen enrolled because this school did not charge tuition, which is how he was trained by Japan to become the so-called best military talent.
Later, due to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Matsui Ishigen interrupted his studies while still studying at the military academy, and entered the northeast region of China with the Japanese army to fight against the Russian army, and finally Japan won the victory. Matsui Ishigen in this battle, due to his outstanding performance, naturally earned a lot of capital, and his position was greatly promoted. After the russo-Japanese War, Matsui Ishigen continued to return to the military academy and was later sent to China. Just when the Japanese army launched an all-out war of aggression against China, he used the advantage of "China Pass" and military school education to quickly obtain a high military command. Many important military strategic plans at the top of Japan need to be consulted with Matsui Ishigen.
At the time of the fall of Nanjing, Matsui Ishigen held a huge entrance ceremony to celebrate the victory of the Japanese army, and his small man rode on a high horse, full of pride and emotion. After the Japanese army entered Nanjing, the atrocities of the Japanese army were at its peak, and as the supreme commander, he did not stop the atrocities of the Japanese army, but on the contrary, he encouraged them, and also invited Gu Shoufu to dinner, "To show consolation and listen to his various views on the actual combat situation", this is the acquiescence of the Japanese devil's word Nanjing atrocities.
Although in these brutal killings by the Japanese army, those middle- and high-ranking Japanese officers were naturally the culprits, but even if some did not directly participate in the massacre, but without their acquiescence and instructions, the Japanese troops below him did not dare to act in this way, so the Massacre in Nanjing was only the executor of a certain event. So that later the nanjing massacre caused many international opposition, the international community condemned the barbaric acts of the Japanese army, in order to reduce the impact, Matsui Ishigen was transferred back to Japan, Matsui Ishigen returned to Japan, not only did not review his own crimes, but also did a very strange thing. He actually built a statue of Guanyin, and what is even more unacceptable is that the statue of Guanyin was actually built with Chinese clay, so what is the purpose of Matsui Ishigen's doing this? Ostensibly, Matsui Says it was done to atone for his sins and to commemorate the Japanese soldiers who died on the battlefields of China.
But in fact, Matsui Ishigen on the one hand made this Guanyin Buddha statue in the direction of Nanjing, on the other hand, named this Guanyin Buddha statue "Xingya Guanyin". That is to say, Matsui Ishigen, who is a Chinese master, hopes to use this Guanyin Buddha statue to pray for Japan's grand blueprint for establishing a greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere, and regards the war of aggression against China as "relief for Greater East Asia" and his heart is condemned. After the surrender of the Japanese army, in the international court of justice, the victorious countries listed a large number of Class A and Class B war criminals in order to pursue the crimes of the Japanese army, and after a fair trial, they were duly punished. Among them, Matsui Ishigen is the most representative, and his behavior of pretending to be a ghost after returning to Japan is extremely shameful.
At the trial, Matsui Argued that he had been ill at the time and had failed to stop the atrocities committed by his subordinates. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East refuted the evidence: ''His illness has neither prevented him from commanding the combat operations of the army under his leadership nor from visiting the city for several days at the time of such atrocities. His face was revealed in court, and as a Class A war criminal, Matsui Ishigen was executed by the International Tribunal. However, his descendants carved matsui Ishigen's name on the Guanyin Buddha statue and burned incense day and night to commemorate him. It's outrageous to think about.