During World War II, Japan launched a war of aggression against china, the United States, and many countries in the world. During the war, the frenzied Japanese aggressors committed numerous crimes against the people of all countries, especially in our country, when Japan carried out the three-light policy, burning, killing, and robbing the people of our country. Japan also committed many horrific crimes in our country, including the Nanjing Massacre.
Many acts of injustice will kill themselves, and the Japanese invaders will eventually pay the price for their accumulated crimes. Thanks to the efforts of China, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and many other anti-fascist allies, Italy, Germany and other Axis powers surrendered one after another, and Japan also announced its unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945. After Japan's surrender, war criminals who committed numerous crimes during World War II were brought to trial by the Allies.
During the Tokyo trial, a total of 118 Japanese suspects were arrested as World War II Class A war criminals, of whom 28 were ruled by the Far Eastern Military Tribunal as Class A war criminals, but only 7 were sentenced to death: Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Akira Muto, Ishigen Matsui, Seishiro Itagaki, Hiroshi Hirota, and Shotaro Kimura. What crimes have these seven committed against the people of our country, including our country?
1. Kenji Toihara
Kenji Doihara was the number one spy of the Japanese invasion of China, and he has been engaged in espionage activities in China for more than 30 years. The 918 incident in China, the Lugou Bridge incident, the establishment of Manchukuo, Wang Jingwei's treason and other major events all have the shadow of Kenji Toihara behind them. Kenji Toihara has committed heinous crimes in our country. After the defeat, Kenji Doihara was in court, trying in vain to use a wordless turtle strategy to evade the responsibility for the crime. Many acts of injustice will kill themselves, and in the end Kenji Doihara will be sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal.
2. Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo was the prime minister of Japan during World War II and a representative of Japanese militarism. During his tenure in the Japanese Kwantung Army, Hideki Tojo was known as the "Razor General" by the Japanese because of his arbitrariness and fierceness. During his tenure as prime minister in Japan, Hideki Tojo launched a full war of aggression against China, attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, and waged wars against asian countries such as the Philippines, Thailand, and Burma.
A series of wars waged by Hideki Tojo brought endless disasters to the people of Asia. After Japan's defeat, he knew that he would not be able to escape death, so he tried to commit suicide, but unfortunately the bullet did not hit the key part, and Hideki Tojo was saved by the Allies. Subsequently, on the judgment bench, Hideki Tojo, because of his greed for life and fear of death, tried everything to argue and deny, in a vain attempt to evade the crime. In the face of ironclad evidence, any sophistry pales in the face, and Hideki Tojo was convicted a Class A war criminal by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. He was executed on 23 December 1948.
3. Akira Muto
Muto Akira is a Lieutenant General in the Japanese Army, and compared with Hideki Tojo and Kenji Doihara, he is of a lower rank, but Muto Akira's crimes are not much less than theirs. On July 7, 1937, Muto Akira planned the Lugou Bridge Incident, which opened the prelude to Japan's all-out war of aggression against China. In December 1937, Muto Akira condones his men to massacre the city of Nanjing, creating the horrific Nanjing Massacre. There are 300,000 innocent people in our country who died in the Nanjing Massacre. Muto also created the Indonesian massacre and the Manila massacre, which resulted in the tragic deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. After the war, Akira Muto was designated a Class A war criminal by the International Tribunal and sentenced to death.
4. Matsui Ishine
Matsui Ishigen was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Central China Front and one of the perpetrators of the Nanjing Massacre. After the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, Matsui Ishigen issued an order to "eliminate plainclothes soldiers", which led to the Japanese army began to kill in Nanjing, and countless elderly people, children, and women died tragically under the knife of the invaders. Matsui Ishigen committed a heinous crime in Nanjing, so he was sentenced to death by the International Court of Justice after the war.
5. Seishiro Itagaki
Seishiro Itagaki was a major general in the Japanese Army, serving as chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and commander-in-chief of the Seventh Front. Itagaki Seishiro was one of the planners of the September 18 Incident, helping Japan invade and occupy the three eastern provinces of our country. At the same time, Itagaki Seishiro also planned the puppet Manchukuo incident together with Kenji Doihara. They supported the last emperor Puyi as a puppet emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo, in a vain attempt to use such means to invade and divide our country. After World War II, Itagaki Seishiro was convicted a Class A war criminal by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and sentenced to death.
6. Hiroshi Hirota
Hiroshi Hirota is the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan. During his time as prime minister, Japan gradually formed a military system. At the same time, during his tenure as a Japanese diplomat, Hirota also put forward the Three Principles of Hirota: China must suppress the anti-Japanese movement, must recognize the puppet state of Manchukuo, and must be friendly with Japan. This has caused great harm to our people, so he has also been convicted as a Class A war criminal and sentenced to death.
7. Kotaro Kimura
Kimura Istarō is the chief of staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army, is also an expert in weapons, and has long been involved in the development and development of Japanese weapons and equipment, and these weapons have become an important accomplice of the Japanese handmaidens in killing our people. But these crimes may not have sent Kimura to the gallows, and in 1944, near the end of the war, Kimura went to Burma and caused the Yangon massacre that shocked the world, which allowed Kimura to catch the last train to the gallows. After the war, he was sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal.