The 8th Division of the Japanese Army was one of the 6 hybrid divisions added by the Japanese expansion after the Sino-Japanese War, and was established in Hirosaki, so it is also called the Hirosaki Division. Since its establishment, all the division commanders have been lieutenant generals, and most of the soldiers have come from the northeastern regions of Japan, such as the prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Akita, and Yamagata, and these soldiers are known for their toughness and extreme obedience to orders.
This division was originally created to deal with the Russian army, so they had to be trained in the cold before they could adapt to fighting in cold regions. In 1902, when training at Mt. Hakkoda Mountain, 199 people froze to death. In 1905, it was surrounded in the war against Russia and almost half of it was killed, but it was later able to break through thanks to the rescue of the 5th Division. In 1910, he was ordered to garrison the Korean Peninsula, and was later incorporated into the Kwantung Army, which consisted of 2 infantry brigades, 4 infantry wings, and artillery, cavalry, engineers, and baggage wings, with a total strength of 220,000 people, with mountain artillery, field artillery, tanks, armored vehicles and various heavy **. All the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese devils in China, this 8th Division was all involved.
The "918" incident, the Rehe operation, the 128-head devil took Chengde, and Nantianmen defeated the 3 divisions of the ** Army, etc., all of which had its participation;It burned, killed, looted, cleared the township, suppressed the volunteers, and implemented the three-light policy in the northeastIn Shanghai and Nanjing, it is the one who makes it bigger;In Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hebei burning, killing and looting have it;It was burned and looted in Changsha, a large number of bombs were dropped in Chongqing, poison gas bombs were used in Zhejiang, and Chinese cultural relics were looted in ShanxiThere is also it in the case of arresting women in China and forcing them to become ***. In the end, it confronted the U.S. military on the battlefield in the Philippines, and it was it that committed mass suicide in the end.
The successive commanders of the 8th Division did not have a single good thing. The eighth Lin Yilong, who became the commander of the Kwantung Army in June 1930, vigorously suppressed the anti-Japanese armed forces in the northeast and carried out enslavement education for the people in the northeast
The 9th Shinzaburo Mazaki planned the "918 Incident", and after the defeat, he became a Class A war criminal, and what is even more hateful is that in the end, this dog crumb was acquitted;
The 11th Xi Yiyi, in 1933, served as the commander-in-chief of Rehe and Nantianmen in the Battle of the Great Wall, and ordered his subordinates to burn and loot this dog offal, and was designated as a Class A war criminal after the war;The 12th person, Kotaro Nakamura, participated in the planning of the "918 Incident" and "77 Incident";
The 14th Maeda Toshi, who participated in the planning of the "918 Incident" and the "77 Incident", ended his dog in a plane crash in Southeast Asia
The 15th person Tsukada attack, assisted Matsui Ishi and commanded the Battle of Nanjing, was one of the main criminals of Nanjing, on December 18, 1942, he took a plane from Nanjing to Hankou, and was shot down by our army's anti-aircraft guns, and he was also the highest-ranking Japanese army general killed by our army during the War of Resistance against Japan. After this dog offal was killed, the entire Japanese army swept Dabie Mountain like a madman to retaliate, indiscriminately ** Chinese people, no humanity at all.
After Japan's defeat and surrender, in 1962, Japan re-established the 8th Fourth Regiment, which was responsible for the defense of Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima. Japan once shouted that if something happened in the Taiwan Strait, the troops that could immediately go into battle were referring to this group of dogs.