As is known to all, after Japan announced its surrender in World War II, many Japanese troops invading China were listed as war criminals, and according to the size of the crimes committed, they were divided into Class A war criminals and Class B war criminals respectively.
The commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, who was acquitted, was Ninji Okamura, who was appointed commander-in-chief of the Japanese Chinese Dispatch Force in November 1944, and during the period of the invasion of China, Okamura Ningji made "outstanding military achievements" for Japan, and he was a criminal war criminal for Chinese.
In May 1884, Okamura Ningji was born in Japan to a declining samurai family, began to learn Chinese characters from an early age, and then entered the military academy to participate in the Russo-Japanese War.
From February 1915, when Okamura was 31 years old, he was sent to Qingdao, China, to carry out secret service activities, the main task was to collect Chinese intelligence, the first time he stepped into China Okamura Ningji lived in China for 4 years, returned to Japan in 1919, and returned to China again after 6 years.
This time he was hired as a military adviser by the warlord Sun Chuanfang, and Okamura Ningji actively created a Chinese warlord melee, but at that time, Okamura Ningji's bad deeds were still limited, and until the later period, after his position in the Japanese army continued to rise, the crimes he committed were also increasing.
On August 19, 1932, Okamura Ninji was appointed deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, and after taking office, Okamura Ninji killed countless people in various parts of the northeast, when many anti-Japanese armed forces in various areas of the northeast were eliminated by Okamura Ninji, and he even proposed the establishment of a "human circle" in the northeast.
It was the use of force to force the villagers to gather in one place, build a high wall and strictly prohibit going out, resulting in a large number of fertile land being deserted and a large number of people starving to death, in addition to establishing a "suppression of bandits" force of more than 50,000 people, encircling and suppressing the anti-Japanese armed forces, and killing a large number of patriots.
In 1941, Okamura Ning Chinese ji was awarded the rank of general by the Japanese army, and the Japanese Emperor personally appointed him commander of the North China Front, with more than 245,000 troops under his command, and the infamous "Three Light Policy" was written by Okamura Ningji.
In November 1944, Okamura Ninji was appointed commander-in-chief of the Japanese army invading China, and according to his rank and crimes, Okamura Ningji was undoubtedly a Class A war criminal who should be sentenced to death.
Unexpectedly, on January 26, 1949, Okamura Ningji was "acquitted" in Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek hired him as a military adviser, and 4 days later, Okamura Ningji fled back to Japan by boat, becoming the only "innocent" Class A war criminal.
Okamura Ninji and his wife Norie had two sons, the second son died of illness in Shanghai when he was young, his wife died of a wild disease, the living eldest son died violently in April 1962, and in his later years Okamura Ningji lamented that this was retribution, after which he began to write memoirs, and died of a heart attack in September 1966 at the age of 82.