He was one of the seven Class A war criminals who were hanged by the International Military Tribunal after World War II, and as many as 50,000 Chinese laborers were tortured to death by him, and the mass graves built were filled in just over a year, and he was also called "the butcher of Burma, and as many as 260,000 people died tragically at his hands in the Yangon massacre alone. He threw his Chinese into a rat hole and bit him alive, treated the living as food for wolf dogs, and hanged him alive with a wire through the palm of his hand if he escaped, is this a moral decline or the destruction of humanity? Is it a distortion of character or a lack of brainstem? So let's clear the fog and enter the stinky life of Hyōtaro Kimura.
Kimura Hyotaro, born in 1888 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, his father Kimura Izuke was an army major, but at the wrong time, when Taro was six years old, his father died on the battlefield between Japan and Russia, his mother was the president of the White Juku Relic Association, this meeting is simply "collecting debts", it is the family that asks the Japanese government for high subsidies on the grounds of soldiers killed in the war, if the government does not give it, it will stage the "three-light policy" on the spot, living in such a "belligerent" The children in the family are naturally not ordinary people.
Japan Saitama
Kimura Hyōtaro is the eldest son in the family, he was sent to the Hiroshima Army Local Infantry School at a very young age to receive militarized education, and his grades are indeed a hook to hit a frog - top croak, when he was 18 years old, he entered the famous Japanese Army NCO School for further study, directly a son inheriting his father's business, at that time Japan's Meiji Restoration movement was just beginning, which is our old saying that the outside is fragrant, so Japan broke away from Asia and completely "Westernized", At that time, Japan not only learned Western methods of managing political economy but also learned their military, and sent a large number of cadets to the West for "military study exchanges", which is a bit like the "Hengshui-style management" that the whole country is now learning, but I have not mastered the essence at all.
However, Japan at that time can be said to be Huang Xiaoming with green onions in his hand - it belongs to the great wisdom that is alive, what do you Western countries do I always draw cats and tigers, you have a militarized school, then I will also build one, not only that, I have to have a few more than you, among which the Japanese Army NCO School has become a successful leader of the Wanwan class, not only teaching them militarized management, but also instilling Japanese militarist ideas, also known as the "nursery" of Japanese imperialism, which belongs to washing the brain and destroying the mind, Constantly exporting high-ranking generals of Japan's invasion of China, among them, the guinea pig Kimura Hyōtaro is the most successful, and he feels that it is a great honor to fight for the Japanese emperor, and it can be written into the family tree!
Hyotaro Kimura
During his studies, because his father was a martyr who died for Japan, Kimura Hyotaro was taken care of and cultivated, but he was not good at words and wooden, he chose to isolate the world without friends, and he studied to improve and make artillery shells in the library every day, he thought that the power and scope of artillery fire in the war was huge, but at that time the accuracy and power of Japanese artillery shells were almost impossible, but it backfired, and his love with learning was personally extinguished by the black hand of graduation, Out of 276 people, Taro graduated with honors in 15th place and was awarded the rank of artillery second lieutenant.
In 1913, he chose to study at the Japanese Army University, which belongs directly to the staff of the Japanese army, from which almost all the senior generals of Japan's foreign wars came out, these people are called Japan's "flower of the empire", after graduation, they are directly assigned by the staff office, excellent graduates can also receive a saber awarded by the Japanese emperor, in 1916, Taro graduated with the ninth place in the same period, directly assigned to the staff department, became a senior career editor, and soon was promoted to artillery captain, It can be said that the sparrow pecked the butt of the cow, and the finch ate the cow.
Order of the Japanese Army University
In 1922, the 34-year-old Hyōtaro Kimura, who graduated from the artillery department, was selected as a military attaché in Germany to learn equipment manufacturing in Germany, and after returning to China, Taro has been improving equipment for a living, and indeed he has not learned in vain, under the efforts of Taro, the progress of Japanese artillery fire is like Grandma Liu vs. Optimus Prime, which is incredible, Kimura Hyotaro has also become a famous "artillery expert" in the army, but the ambitious Kimura Hyotaro does not want to hand over the sword, but becomes a sword himself.
Through many self-nominations, he finally ushered in an important opportunity in his life in 1939, when China's War of Resistance Against Japan was almost carried out to the point where Japan could not fight in and could not drive out, China's heroic struggle broke Japan's dream of "three months of aggression against China", and the slapped Japan also lost one of the nine steamrollers and eight teeth, so the angry Japan wanted to send more troops to take China.
At that time, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shandong, General Luo Ronghuan led the Chinese army to establish a number of anti-Japanese base areas in Shandong, which were connected and complemented by each other. Seeing that all kinds of moves could not deal with China, so he appointed the then Kimura Hyotaro as the commander of the Japanese 32nd Division to go to Shandong, China, just as the so-called new official took office three fires, Kimura Hyotaro said after the inspection: The biggest threat to us is the Eighth Route Army, so after he took office, he directly stopped the frontal attack on the Kuomintang, but aimed the spearhead at the 115th Division of the Shandong Eighth Route Army, and led more than 8,000 Japanese troops to carry out a comprehensive sweep of the various strongholds of the Shandong Eighth Route Army. Regardless of men, women and children in the area, they all shoot and kill, take what can be taken away, burn what they can't take, and burn the wells that can't be moved, and the Japanese who have a good life in our small life will also poison you, but fortunately, General Luo Ronghuan took precautions, and he commanded the army to launch an attack after going around the headquarters of the Japanese army, directly breaking the Japanese army's attack plan.
Luo Ronghuan
The defeated Kimura Hyōtaro was still unwilling, so he decided to bribe the traitor to inquire about the grapevine, and the result really let this kid succeed, after learning the base of the Eighth Route Army, Kimura Hyōtaro decisively launched a sneak attack, directly caught the Shandong Army by surprise, but under the command of General Luo Ronghuan, after annihilating the Japanese army of 1300 people, the stability tactics carried out a scattered breakthrough, and began to counterattack after moving to the area east of Dongping. So he lost again.
It is said that more than 2,000 strong men captured at that time were imprisoned in the "Xinhuayuan" concentration camp, and from time to time they had to draw 200cc of their blood, nominally to conduct laboratory tests, what they were doing behind the scenes, we also knew very well, frequent blood drawing led to many deaths due to blood exhaustion, and the living were arrested as coolies, and if they were a little neglected, they would be severely beaten, which led to the tragic death of many people, in addition, Kimura Hyōtaro's cruelty is really outrageous, he will pull the living out and let the wolf dogs bite until death, and those who are sick will be thrown into a specially set up "special disease hole", bitten alive by rats, and if anyone escapes and is caught, he hangs him alive on a tree with wire through the palm of his hand, or forces them to dig a pit and bury himself alive.
And Kimura Hyōtaro also rose step by step because of these cruel methods against the Chinese, and also became the chief of staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army, after taking office, he even played the brutality to the fullest, in the name of "military crusade" to rob the people to the mining area to do hard labor, at this time he was already a walking killing machine, miners did coolies under the threat of the Japanese army, countless people died from collapses or gas poisoning, in order to facilitate the disposal of corpses, they also dug a "mass grave" to store corpses, But it was buried in less than a year and eight months
In July 1940, after Hideki Tojo was promoted to Minister of the Army, he actively wooed his cronies for his own selfishness, and Kimura Hitaro became the first choice, and Hideki Tojo recommended him to become the deputy governor of the army.
In 1941, after Hideki Tojo became prime minister, he presided over the general meeting, fully deployed the battle plan for the United States, exercised the attack on Pearl Harbor again and again, and Kimura Hyotaro was responsible for making a plot in the rear, on December 7, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War broke out, the United States joined the anti-fascist alliance, and jointly launched a desperate duel with the fascist alliance, various countries covered each other to attack, and the Japanese who fought Japan were all rebels, but the Japanese who wore "the superiority of the Japanese Yamato nation" on their heads would never bow their heads, Because tears will flow, crowns will fall, desperately resisting the pressure brought by countries.
In 1944, Kimura Hyotaro was sent to Burma as the commander of the Burma Front, at this time the Japanese army against Burma was on the verge of collapse, Japan will hope to give Kimura Hyotaro, but he can't fight the war, either defeat the war or retreat all the time, for which Kimura Hyotaro suffered a banana spiral rainbow scolding from the Japanese government, angry he began to return to his old business of bullying the soft and afraid of hardness, massacring Burmese civilians and prisoners of war, and at that time the bloody massacre began in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar, At least 12,000 people were killed according to others who were later tried. In addition, the people of South Asia were allowed to establish Japanese "labor camps", which were actually Japanese military camps, and the construction of the Thai-Burma railway alone tortured about 250,000 laborers, not including more than 10,000 British and American prisoners of war, Kimura Hyotaro was locally known as the "Butcher of Burma".
In April 1945, under the continuous blows of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the Anglo-Indian allies, the Japanese defense lines of various countries completely collapsed, Kimura Hyotaro upheld the belief that one person fled and the whole army won, only led a few retinues to escape from Rangoon by plane, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were thrown into the jungle, Kimura Hyotaro who fled back was promoted to general by the emperor because of the number of enemies killed in battle, in the same year Japan surrendered unconditionally, Kimura Hyotaro returned to Rangoon, Burma to surrender to the Allies on behalf of the Japanese army, After handing over the instrument of surrender, he was arrested and sent to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
On May 3, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East opened! After an investigation two years ago, he was convicted of seven counts of "crimes against peace" and "violations of the laws of war and crimes against humanity", and was hanged along with six other Class A offenders who had committed serious war crimes.
At 0:00 on December 23, 1948, the execution began in the execution room of Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, and at about 0:20, a loud noise in the sky made Hyōtaro Kimura appear, asking Dr. Hanayama to convey his last words to his wife: "I am leaving, and I beg my beloved wife Hidehoko to open some." Transcending death is eternal life, and may God bless us with a good relationship in the next life. I will be your guidepost", Kimura Hyotaro was the last to be put on the gallows, the murderous machine's eyes showed a desire for life, trembling strongly with fear, 15 minutes later, this murderous maniac finally went to hell, seven people were cremated together to prevent them from becoming the object of worship of Japanese descendants, using a plane to scatter their ashes in the Pacific Ocean, so that Kimura Hyotaro was completely wiped out!
With the death of Kimura Hyōtaro, a demon in the war died, although he received the punishment he deserved, but it is difficult for the unjust souls who died under his hands to find rest, how can the death of one person's life be equated with the crime, his crime should be spurned by the world, regardless of nationality or skin, every life should be respected, and everyone who guards peace deserves to be remembered, or that sentence, we cannot forgive them for our ancestors, forgetting the past is not only betrayal, but also will definitely repeat the past and remember history, Don't forget the national shame.