In modern history, the name Okamura Ningji has been repeatedly mentioned, as a "senior" war criminal invading China, Okamura Ningji can be said to have played a lot of drama in the Chinese battlefield, from the initial Jinan Massacre, the Wicker Lake Incident, to the later "Tanggu Agreement", the Battle of Wuhan, and then to the "Three Lights Policy" in North China.
Even after the victory of the War of Resistance, Okamura Ninji escaped trial and continued to stay in China to cooperate with the Kuomintang reactionaries.
Of course, such a war criminal who is full of evil will not have a good end, especially his family, who has received very great retribution.
Let's start with his love and marital status.
Okamura had three relationships in his life, but all of them ended in regret. In 1911, the 27-year-old Okamura Ninji married Rishi Hoshino, who was still a college student at the time and was not as entangled in military affairs as later, so the couple's life was still relatively warm.
Unfortunately, Hoshino Rishi was born with a heart attack, and she died of illness at the age of 35. At the time of her death, Okamura Ningji was on the battlefield of China, and as a married couple, he had never seen the last side.
Shortly after the death of his wife, a Japanese expatriate woman named Ishida entered the life of Okamura Ninji, and in the days when his beloved wife died, lost his beloved son, and had heavy military affairs, thanks to Ishida's company, Okamura Ningji was reinvigorated, and the two soon fell in love.
However, ishida, who was born from a social flower, was deeply liked by Okamura Ningji, but he was not accepted by his mother-in-law. Perhaps accustomed to a traditional Japanese woman like Ritsue Hoshino, the old lady has always been very repulsive to the open Ishida, and Okamura Ninji, who is also a famous filial piety, has no choice, and the two who have been in love for ten years finally announce their breakup.
Considering that he was on the front line for many years, and that his elderly mother and son always had to be taken care of, Okamura Ningji married a traditional Japanese woman, Kato Chie, at the request of his mother. There is no vigorous love between the two, no promise of life and death, more of a paper agreement.
From the end of the war of aggression against China to the years when Okamura was repatriated to China, it was Always Kato Tomoe who served in his hometown and gave Okamura Ninji's old mother a pension. Although their marriage was unremarkable, it lasted the longest, and Kato Chie became the only relative who accompanied Okamura when he died.
Next, look at his children.
Okamura had two sons, the eldest son, Tadao Okamura, and takemasa Okamura, the second son, both of whom he and his wife Hoshino Rishige.
Although Okamura Ningji himself lived a long life, living to be 82 years old, his two sons did not have a good life, as early as 1926, the second son Okamura Takemasa, who studied with his father in Shanghai, fell ill and died at the age of 11. It is also for this reason that Okamura Ninji took the initiative to ask to be transferred away from Shanghai and away from the sad place.
Although the eldest son, Okamura Tadamasa, lived a little longer, he only survived until 1962, not long after Okamura Was repatriated to Japan. In other words, before the two children could wait for a reunion, Okamura Ningji once again experienced the white-haired people sending the black-haired people.
After this, Okamura Ningji's side is only a relative of Kato Zhihui, and the feelings of the two have long been estranged after so many years of separation, it can be said that in his later years, Okamura Ningji is a lonely person, and there is no family fun to speak of.
It was not until September 1966 that Okamura died of illness at the age of 82.
Maybe this is the so-called "karma", think about the crimes he committed in those years, and finally repaid to his family, ended up alone, I don't know if Okamura Ningji had a little regret before his death?