On December 13, 1937, the Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo published a headline with the headline: "100 Beheaded, Exceeding Record, Mukai 106-105 Noda, Two Ensigns Extend the Battle."
Gao Wenbin was the first Chinese to see the news, and it was nine years later, when the "Tokyo trial" was being actively promoted, and Gao Wenbin was an assistant to the Chinese prosecutor who participated in the Tokyo trial.
This news is also accompanied by a **, on which Japanese officers Takeshi Noda and Toshiaki Mukai stand side by side, sabers on the ground, and behind them is a Chinese city that the Japanese army has just occupied.
Tokyo Asahi Shimbun newspaper**.
* The two above are second lieutenant officers of the 16th Division of the Japanese Invasion of China, whose names are Takeshi Noda and Toshiaki Mukai.
After the defeat of the Battle of Songhu, the Kuomintang army retreated all the way to Nanjing, while the Japanese army pressed forward step by step, chasing and killing all the way.
When passing through the Wuxi and Changzhou areas of Jiangsu, the two Japanese second lieutenants actually played a killing game.
Toshiaki Mukai said that he killed 106 Chinese, and Noda Takeshi said that he killed 105 Chinese, and the gap between who lost and who won was not large, so Noda Takeshi did not admit defeat.
Therefore, the two killer demon kings agreed to compete again, and whoever killed 100 Chinese first would win.
This is the general content of the "Tokyo Asahi Shimbun" report, and the report also mentions some details, the murder weapon used by the two killer demon kings to kill the Chinese is a katana, more than 100 people were killed, their blades were blunted, and they also gave the two katana with curled blades to the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun.
Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda.
This was the first time that the Chinese side learned that the Japanese army had committed this atrocity of "100 beheadings", and Gao Wenbin immediately reported this discovery to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Nanjing Military Tribunal at that time.
The Allied forces in Japan also immediately launched an investigation.
The first step in the investigation is to first determine whether these two people are dead or alive, because there is information that Mukai Toshiaki and Noda Takeshi are officers of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, one of the culprits of the Nanjing ** later participated in the "Battle of Leyte Island", 13,158 people died, and only 620 people survived.
Coincidentally, the two killer kings didn't die, but after these two returned to Japan, they went incognito and disappeared.
Allied investigators spent a lot of time trying to find their hometown, but they found nothing.
Just when the investigators were disheartened, especially the Chinese, the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse.
The three demons were tried in Nanjing.
One day at noon, a group of Allied gendarmes passed by a fish ball shop on Akasaka Road in Tokyo, and suddenly heard a fierce quarrel in the store, so the gendarmes went into the fish ball shop to inspect the situation.
It turned out that a middle-aged man was shouting there, and the shopkeeper accused him of not eating the "overlord meal", but the middle-aged man was there to argue and refused to pay the bill.
At first glance, this was a civil dispute, and the gendarmes were too lazy to "meddle in their affairs" and were ready to teach a few words of advice before pulling their legs out.
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man who ate the "overlord meal" surprised the gendarmes.
You go to inquire, Lao Tzu was the '100-day chop' back then, will he be afraid of you as a small owner of a fish ball shop? ”
Do you know how many people I've killed in China? I'm afraid it scares you ...... by saying it”
The gendarmes did not dare to be negligent, and immediately arrested the middle-aged man who was eating the "overlord meal", and the allies immediately arranged for a special person to interrogate him.
Nanjing: The scene of the shooting of Japanese war criminals.
The result of the interrogation was a bit unexpected, this middle-aged man was neither Mukai nor Noda, his name was Tanaka Junyoshi, and in his confession, Mukai and Noda were not worth mentioning at all, and the implication was: I killed more Chinese than them!
Allied investigators were horrified by Tanaka's remarks, and at one point suspected that the Japanese was "bragging" or had gone insane.
What is chilling is that after investigation, what he said is basically the truth!
During the Nanjing Da** period, Tanaka Junyoshi was the captain of the Japanese 6th Division, he used a saber called "Zhuguang", rampage in Nanjing, cut down every person, from Zhonghua Gate to Shuixi Gate, he "killed all over Nanjing City, beheaded more than 300".
It is believed that such a bloody act of the Japanese army was by no means an isolated case in Nanjing, and their brutality can be imagined.
The moment before the execution of the three demons.
The Allied investigators were shocked and also had a windfall, Tanaka Gunyoshi actually knew the whereabouts of Mukai and Noda, and guided the Allied investigators to find the two blood-indebted murderers in Kagoshima.
At the strong request of the Chinese side, the Allied forces agreed to hand over Toshiaki Mukai, Takeshi Noda, and Gunyoshi Tanaka to the Chinese side for approval.
On December 4, 1947, the Nanjing Military Tribunal for the Trial of War Criminals tried two war criminals, Mukai and Noda.
When asked by the judge about the "killing contest," Mukai and Noda denied it, claiming that the so-called killing contest was nothing more than "bragging."
In the end, the court presented the "Tokyo Asahi Shimbun" that published the news of "100 people beheaded", and Mukai and Noda bowed their heads.
With all the human and physical evidence complete, Takeshi Noda, Toshiaki Mukai, and Gunyoshi Tanaka were all sentenced to death.
On January 28, 1948, Toshiaki Mukai, Takeshi Noda, Gunyoshi Tanaka and other Japanese war criminals were escorted to the Yuhuatai Execution Ground outside the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing, where these Japanese invaders who had accumulated blood debts would end their criminal lives.
Before the execution of the three demons.
Before the execution, the photojournalist captured the last ** of Toshiaki Mukai, Takeshi Noda, and Gunyoshi Tanaka, on which the three demons smoked cigarettes greedily, and the smoke was filled.
Strangely, there was no fear or despair on the faces of the three demons, could it be that this was their "bushido" spirit? Is this still a normal reaction of a person?
The author believes that under the influence of the spirit of "bushido", they have lost the "seven emotions and six desires" that normal people should have.
Moreover, the atrocities of the Japanese army in Nanjing are enough to prove that they have broken through the ethical bottom line of a normal person and become a "demon who looks like a human".
Therefore, in the face of a righteous judgment and facing death, it is not surprising that these Japanese demons do not have the natural reaction of normal people.