If you visit the MacArthur Museum today, you'll see a Colt 32-caliber pistol displayed in a solemn form in an exhibition cabinet.
Ironically, the pistol's greatest exploit is that it deflects a bullet, forcing a self-proclaimed man to be tried, thus completing the puzzle of a story.
The man was called Hideki Tojo, and the story was called "The Tokyo Trial."
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On January 19, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East was formally established, and 11 countries from all continents gathered in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals who committed serious crimes in World War II.
It is precisely for this reason that when it was learned that the war criminals who invaded China would be tried in Japan, our people rejoiced and were encouraged by it, and even the people of the world rushed to congratulate each other.
Ironically, the Far Eastern Military Tribunal used to try Japanese war criminals was built on a plateau in the former Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
Since The indictment filed by The American Ji Nan, who was in charge of the Tokyo trial, on April 29, 28 Japanese war criminals received the documents the next day, and they have been on a more than two-year trial journey.
In the morning, U.S. troops armed with firearms threw them out of the prison, and under the escort of American Jeeps, they were placed in a fully enclosed bus and taken to court, where they were escorted back again in the evening after a day's trial.
This is the daily life of these 28 war criminals, boring, humiliating, and deserved.
According to relevant statistics, in the past two and a half years, the Far Eastern Military Tribunal has conducted a total of 818 arraignments of these 28 war criminals, which can be said to have improved everyone dozens of times.
Simplify their crimes and then bind them together, even into a thick book.
From the Songhua River to the South Pacific Islands, from 1928 to 1945, the Japanese army did not only ravage China, but judges from all over the world hoped that these Japanese war criminals would pay their due price, which is why the trial time was so long.
Since the Tokyo trial itself was allowed to observe, many Japanese people purchased audit papers every day during the Tokyo trial and came to the temporary International Military Tribunal for the Far East to observe the trial.
Because the Japanese authorities have long carried out false propaganda, these people do not believe that the "heroes" in their eyes will be guilty of anything, even if the military judges announce their cruel atrocities one by one, the Japanese people are skeptical, until finally the war criminals have to confess their guilt, the Japanese people completely collapsed.
When the Far East Military Tribunal tried the part of the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese people who were watching the whole trial did not even dare to look directly at the eyes of Chinese after the trial was withdrawn, even if it was anger and arrogance in ordinary days, they could not hide their inner weakness, and even the people were sincerely ashamed of the crimes of these Japanese war criminals.
After an arduous trial, all 28 war criminals were finally found guilty, while 7 of them, represented by Hideki Tojo and Kenji Doihara, were formally sentenced to hanging, and the remaining 21 war criminals were sentenced to life imprisonment or life imprisonment, of which the fixed-term imprisonment was basically more than 20 years.
The trial is over, and people all over the world are beginning to look forward to another moment, when these 7 war criminals are sent to the gallows.
Justice is late, but fortunately it will come in the end, but what is the attitude of the 7 war criminals who were sentenced to hanging? Let's take a look at them one by one.
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The first is Hideki Tojo, as a former Prime Minister of Japan and one of the three famous fascist leaders, he is a strong caller of Japanese militarism and bushido spirit.
It is also funny to say that it is such a "samurai" who strongly promotes Bushido.
What is even more ironic is that when he committed suicide, he actually chose not to cut his abdomen, but to choose a pistol. As a result, everyone knows that he was wrong, and instead of being able to get rid of his death, he became a laughing stock in the eyes of the people of the world.
After being rescued by the doctor, Hideki Tojo still supported his so-called "decency", saying that his biggest failure was not because he launched a war, but "failed to win for Japan" and "failed to achieve common prosperity for Greater East Asia", which can be said to be shameless.
On the eve of being pushed to the gallows, he even shamelessly took Matsui Ishigen and others by his side and said,
"Everyone shouts with me, Long live the Emperor!"
If he were to face hanging later, Hideki Tojo could also show this "arrogance", and perhaps attract the admiration of some ignorant people.
Unfortunately, it didn't take long for him to expose his cowardly, externally strong and middle-of-the-road nature.
Seeing that he had just been pushed onto the gallows and put on a black hood, his body trembled like chaff on a sieve, and when the executioner pressed the electric button and his body vacated, Hideki Tojo suddenly let out a terrible cry, intermittently choking with a plea for forgiveness.
Everyone in the audience looked at it coldly, and Hideki Tojo, the biggest war criminal, stopped swinging.
When people put his body down, they found that Hideki Tojo was already in a mess because he was afraid, and the judges and other people present all looked at him with disdain and disgust.
Even in the venue at that time, some people "whispered" a word,
"It's not as good as the big dog that was strangled just now!"
The "big dog" here refers to no one else, but the so-called "China Pass" Kenji Toihara.
Kenji Toihara is also quite skilled, not only proficient in 13 European languages, but even learned 4 Chinese dialects.
Not only that, he also deeply understood the hearts of the people, and even once speculated on the ideas of the great warlord Wu Peifu by virtue of his words and actions, and he had a deep understanding of Chinese culture.
However, he was an out-and-out "China master", but instead of using his talent on the right path, he became a "war criminal" shouted and beaten by everyone and a believer in Japanese fascism.
Before being hanged, Kenji Doihara behaved more "sensibly" than Hideki Tojo, and seemed to be "repentant", so much so that he not only wrote in his suicide note, "I only wish China and South Korea prosperity", but also improvised a poem before his death, talking about remorse.
But even so what? What qualifications does an executioner whose hands are stained with the blood of innocent people and who has personally led the army to slaughter countless war criminals who have Chinese have to cry and cry fake mercy?
Kenji Doihara thus became the first of the 7 war criminals to be hanged.
When matsui Ishigen, the main perpetrator of the Nanjing Massacre, was taken to the gallows, there was a clamor at the scene, and such a vicious person went so far as to firmly deny that there had been any large-scale massacres in Nanjing, and even refused to bear "legal responsibility."
But before the evidence piled up by "blood", how can he be sophistry?
With a faceless face, as the rope was put around his neck, the panting immediately became thicker, and from 0:01:30, this guilty man was hanged for 11 minutes and 30 seconds before ending his sinful life.
The rest of the war criminals were also hanged one by one, and the process was similar and the performance was equally unbearable, which made people have to sigh at the pathology of the country at that time.
Soldiers responded to the call of the leadership and were willing to die for the so-called Japanese militarism, but what about the leaders who advocated Japanese militarism? All of them are greedy, afraid of death, hypocritical and cowardly, and inferior to soldiers.
Of course, the performance of the remaining war criminals in the hanging is not worth mentioning, but we must still firmly remember their names and identities, and always remember this humiliating history.
They were Shotaro Kimura, who caused the Yangon Massacre, Akira Muto, who slaughtered 250,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanyang, Hiroshi Hirota, who was in cahoots with Kenji Doihara, and Seishiro Itagaki, the leading officer who launched the September 18 Incident.
From a legal and moral point of view, these people have more than enough to die and cannot be redeemed.
But some of them make us feel even angrier because they were supposed to be hanged along with the 7 culprits, but they got away with it through some despicable means.
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As early as the time when the Japanese emperor announced his unconditional surrender, some Japanese officers gathered outside the Heavenly Palace and committed suicide by caesarean section after leaving their names.
In order to save some war criminals, the despicable Japanese government has actually pasted the names of those war criminals next to the corpses, which has created the illusion that the war criminals have committed suicide.
However, it did not take long for people to discover that these war criminals who were suspended from death had actually changed their identities and "lived" again, which was undoubtedly proof that Japan's militarist ambitions still existed, and it was also an insult to the people of the world by the Japanese government.
In addition, there are also some Japanese war criminals who try to evade responsibility with a crazy fool, and the typical representative here is Zhou ming Okawa.
A month before the trial began, the war criminal drowned on the ground, spat around, and confronted others with the image of madness, eventually misleading the crowd into thinking that he was really crazy, thus escaping the fate of being prosecuted.
But shortly after the end of the trial, he was "healed", and before his death in December 1957, he openly provoked the reporter.
"Yes, I pretended to."
Rather than pretending to be crazy and stupid, preferring to fake death, these war criminals used all kinds of despicable means to escape the trial of the International Tribunal for the Far East, but even so, did they really "escape"? Won't the millions of innocent dead souls cling to their ears all the time, night after night?
Finally, I would like to conclude with a sentence by Mei Ruxuan, the representative of the judges of our country who attended the Military Tribunal for the Far East:
"I am not an avauthwarist, and I have no intention of writing on the Japanese people the blood debt owed to us by the Japanese imperialists, but I believe that forgetting the sufferings of the past may lead to future disasters."