Generaal Matsui Iwane werd een kunstverzameling ter waarde van 2 000 000 dollar gegeven die gestolen was van een Chinese bankier. Schattingen van het aantal slachtoffers. Manchester Guardian correspondent H.J. Timperley schreef dit telegram, dat werd tegengehouden door de Japanse censors in Shanghai. Het telegram werd doorgestuurd ...

Prelude to the battle Japan's decision to capture Nanking. The conflict which would become known as the Second Sino-Japanese War started on July 7, 1937, with a skirmish at Marco Polo Bridge which escalated rapidly into a full-scale war in northern China between the armies of China and Japan. China, however, wanted to avoid a decisive confrontation in the north and so …

Doris Matsui (born 1944), US congresswoman from California, widow of Bob Matsui; Eri Matsui, Japanese fashion designer; Erina Matsui (松井 えり菜, born 1984), Japanese artist; Hideki Matsui (松井 秀喜, born 1974), Japanese former professional baseball player; Iwane Matsui (1878–1948), Japanese general and war criminal

General Iwane Matsui's Speech in 1938: 18,000+ dead Osprey Publishing 2017 data: 18,800 dead (c. 17,000 combat deaths plus about 1,800 illness-induced deaths), 35,000–40,000 wounded, and 40,000 sick. Chinese record: 98,417+ killed and wounded The Battle of Shanghai (Chinese: 淞滬會戰) was the first of the ...

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity leading up to and during the Second World War. It was modeled after the …

General Iwane Matsui waited another hour before issuing the command to take Nanjing by force. The Japanese army mounted its assault on the Nanjing walls from multiple directions; the SEF's 16th Division attacked three gates on the eastern side, the 6th Division of the 10A launched its offensive on the western walls, and the SEF's 9th Division advanced into the area in-between.

The Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers.They were forced to adapt to new technologies and forged the direction of modern warfare. Some political leaders, particularly those of the principal dictatorships involved in the conflict, Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy) and Emperor Hirohito (Japan), acted as …

The controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine are related to the choice of Japanese people who are honoured at this nationally significant Shinto shrine and war museum in central Tokyo.Most of the venerated dead served the Emperors of Japan during wars from 1867 to 1951 but they also include civilians in service and government officials. It is the belief of Shintoism …

Seconda guerra sino-giapponese parte della Guerra del Pacifico; Dall'alto a sinistra in senso orario: truppe da sbarco della Marina imperiale giapponese, dotate di maschere antigas, in azione tra le macerie di Shanghai; una Type 92 nipponica in postazione; vittime del massacro di Nanchino sulle rive del fiume Qinhuai; mitraglieri cinesi impegnati nella battaglia di Wuhan; …

The Kwantung Army (Japanese: 関東軍, Kantō-gun) was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.. The Kwantung Army formed in 1906 as a security force for the Kwantung Leased Territory and South Manchurian Railway Zone after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, and expanded into an army group during the Interwar period to support …