Born on May 15, 1884, Ninji Okamura was born into a family of fallen samurai in the Shimesamachi neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan, and because he was born prematurely, he was born thin, and his father worried that he would not survive, so he named him Okamura Ninji.
Okamura Ninji seemed to have a hard life and miraculously survived. At the age of 4, Okamura began to learn Chinese characters, and at the age of 14, Okamura Ninji put on a grass-green military uniform and began his military career, which of course was the beginning of the nightmare of modern China.
In World War I, Japan took the opportunity to seize the German sphere of influence in China and began to invade Qingdao, Shandong, China. During this period, Okamura Ningji and others were sent to Qingdao to collect information, which was the first time that Okamura Ningji set foot on Chinese soil.
It can be said that among all the generals of the Japanese army invading China, Okamura Ningji was the earliest to come to China, the most familiar with China, and the longest time to invade China. From 1928, Okamura Ninji waged a raging war of aggression against China, committing numerous crimes:
He created the "Jinan Massacre", which killed and injured more than 6,000 Chinese people; as the mastermind of the "Wicker Lake Incident", he launched a war against northeast China; he forced the Kuomintang authorities to sign the "Tanggu Agreement" and establish a puppet state of Manchukuo; he launched the Battle of Wuhan and created no man's land; he implemented the "three lights" policy in the "sweeping"...
During his invasion of China, Okamura Ningji committed countless crimes, which brought deep disasters to the soldiers and people of the War of Resistance, and the land of Shenzhou was devastated everywhere. There is an old Chinese saying that "people are doing, the sky is watching", and Okamura Ninji has not been better because of this.
Okamura Ningji had 2 children, the eldest son named Zhongzheng, the second son named Wuzheng, Okamura Ningji, both sons had been to China before they died, but they both died before him.
Okamura Tadao was born to Okamura Ninji when he was at the Army University with his wife Rishi Norie. In 1934, Okamura was promoted to deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, and the eldest son had been to puppet Manchukuo, but because the eldest son did not learn any skills, Okamura was disappointed and did not like the son, and let him return to the country within a few days.
Takemasa Okamura was also born to a wife. In 1925, Okamura Ningji came to Shanghai for espionage, and then his wife Norie also came to Shanghai with his younger son, who was very well-behaved and very pleasing, and attended a Japanese elementary school in Shanghai. However, a year later, Takemasa Okamura died of an illness. Okamura left Shanghai in pain.
In 1945, japan was defeated, and Okamura returned to Japan, and his wife, No, had already contracted an illness and died. Okamura was supposed to be punished by the law or even hanged along with the other war criminals, but in the end he escaped the crime, leaving only his eldest son, Tadamasa Okamura, by his side.
But in April 1962, the eldest son suddenly died violently, and Okamura completely collapsed. He began to reminisce about his life, writing memoirs of the war in order to pray for peace. However, in his memoirs, Okamura has also been avoiding his crimes. In his later years, he completed the writing of his memoirs in 2 years with the torment of lung disease.
In September 1966, on his deathbed, Okamura said with tears in his eyes: "Retribution! ", at the age of 82. With memories of the real war, and with the pain of losing his loved ones, Okamura also hid his crimes and left alone.