Minami Jiro's War Crimes

193 1 April, if Jiro was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Minami Jiro, who had just been promoted to the rank of general of the army, was recommended as Lv Xiang of the Cabinet by the meeting of commanders in chief of the three armies. As a Minami Jiro on earth, he spared no effort to implement the army's policy of aggression against China. He strongly supported the plan of the Kwantung Army to invade the three northeastern provinces by force. 193 1 In June, Japanese military spy Nobutaro Nakamura and others engaged in espionage activities in Xing 'anling, northeast China, and were captured by the local Northeast Army, and then escaped "missing". The Japanese Kwantung Army used this incident as an excuse to make waves and slandered China's army for killing the Japanese "Dr. Nong". Minami Jiro, based on the report of the Kwantung Army, desperately advocated that the "Nakamura incident" was an "all-Japan incident" and "must be completely and cleanly resolved", in an attempt to incite hatred and revenge of Japanese nationals and create public opinion support and an excuse for the Japanese government to finally send troops to occupy Northeast China. In order to avoid conflict with the Japanese army, the National Government made blind concessions and accepted the Japanese demands. The immaturity frustrated Minami Jiro's sinister intention to expand the situation.

The plan cannot be regenerated. Seeing that the "internal cooperation" of the "Nakamura Incident" failed to achieve the goal of allowing the Japanese base camp to send troops to invade Manchuria immediately, the Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast of China began to eagerly plan another plot-the September 18th Incident.

After learning the intention of Kwantung Army, the base camp thought that "the situation at home and abroad is not yet mature" and should "respect itself for another year", so it was ready to send someone to "appease" Kwantung Army.

Originally, the Emperor ordered Minami Jiro to stop the unauthorized actions of the Kwantung Army, but according to the Emperor's decree, Minami Jiro has full power and can also stop the actions of the Kwantung Army. But Minami Jiro first shirked sending the chiefs of the Kanto military family, and the task of surrender should be sent by the chiefs, taking the opportunity to quickly reveal the will of the Emperor to the chiefs. There are many people in the staff headquarters who support the Kwantung Army's aggression. Immediately, someone sent three secret messages to the masterminds of the incident, Banhara Seijiro and Ishihara Guaner, asking them to act quickly and send someone to the base camp, which resulted in a fait accompli. At the base camp, with the cooperation of Minami Jiro and the "wise response" of the officers, the incident 193 1 originally scheduled by the Kwantung Army was launched on September 28th in advance, that is, the planned September 18th Incident of invading northeast China. Facing the fait accompli of the September 18th Incident, Minami Jiro not only whitewashed the Kwantung Army at the cabinet meeting, claiming that his action was to "exercise the legitimate right of self-defense", but also secretly encouraged the Kwantung Army to expand the war situation and quickly occupy the whole Northeast. Therefore, Minami Jiro, without the approval of the Emperor and the Cabinet, ordered the Japanese commander in Korea, General Hayashi Shiro, to send some troops stationed in Korea to cross the Yalu River and rush to Shenyang to support the Kwantung Army.

Because Chiang Kai-shek adopted a policy of compromise and concession to Japan, he ordered the Northeast Army to "absolutely not resist". Hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army retreated to Shanhaiguan, and the Japanese Kwantung Army easily occupied the three northeastern provinces. Nearly one million square kilometers of land in northeast China and more than 30 million compatriots were colonized by Japanese imperialism.

Shortly after the September 18th Incident, Minami Jiro was appointed as a military staff officer and began to advise the Kwantung Army on the establishment of "Manchukuo". 1932 65438+1On October 28th, Minami Jiro, as a military and political commissar, made a report on the recent situation of Manchuria for the emperor. Minami Jiro said many times in his report that Japan wants to establish a "new country" in Manchuria so that Japan can develop northward in the future, thus turning the Sea of Japan into a "Lake of Japan" (invading the Soviet Union); Japan and this "new country" jointly manage the economy of this region, which can make Japan obtain permanent self-sufficiency (plunder resources); If you immigrate to this "new country", you can solve the problem of Japan's large population and small population. Minami Jiro obviously wanted to persuade the emperor to agree to establish "Manchukuo", thus turning the three northeastern provinces into colonies under his firm control.

In fact, on February 25th, 1932, "Manchukuo" was declared, and Minami Jiro's goal was finally realized. ? 1934 12. Minami Jiro was appointed commander-in-chief of the kwantung army and ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Manchuria. Before 65438+ 10, the base camp issued a reform plan for Manchu institutions, which mainly included: Manchu institutions implemented a two-in-one system, and plenipotentiary ambassadors served as commanders of the Kwantung Army; As diplomats, plenipotentiaries accept the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Giving the plenipotentiary ambassador the power of administrative supervision; The administrative supervision right of the plenipotentiary ambassador is directly under the command system of the Prime Minister of the Cabinet; The plenipotentiary ambassador has a counsellor in charge of foreign affairs. This scheme gives the plenipotentiary great power, making him a veritable "emperor's father".

After Minami Jiro took office, he represented the Japanese government and military departments in the hands of Manchukuo. He is the "emperor's father", and Puyi is the "son emperor" whose front desk is controlled by him.

Minami Jiro is scheduled to meet Puyi on the 3rd of every month to give Puyi "face-to-face instructions", while Puyi obeys his orders with trepidation.

Minami Jiro also set up a court class at the headquarters of Kwantung Army to contact Puyi.

Every move of the Manchukuo government must be approved by Minami Jiro. 1935 on may 2 1 day, Zheng, the old and frail prime minister of the puppet Manchukuo, announced his resignation, and both Shi Yi and Cang wanted to be prime ministers. Xi·QIA is the chief of staff of Jilin Army. He joined the Japanese army after the Kwantung Army occupied Jilin. Zang Shiyi was once the "Governor of Fengtian" and had close ties with the Kwantung Army.

Both of them are Japanese dogs. It is not Puyi who will become prime minister, but Minami Jiro who will decide.

Minami Jiro consulted his subordinates and thought that although they were all loyal to the Japanese, they already had some influence. If either of these two people becomes prime minister, it will make this faction sit up and take notice. Minami Jiro completely ignored the loyalty of the two traitors and chose Zhang Jinghui as the prime minister. The new cabinet list was notified to Puyi, and the "sub-emperor" signed and promulgated the "order" without refuting it. Minami Jiro was the "emperor's father" of Manchukuo, swaggering and brutally suppressing the anti-Japanese struggle of the people in Northeast China and strengthening the colonial rule of Manchukuo, but he was not satisfied. He began to plot "autonomy" in Inner Mongolia and North China in an attempt to further invade Inner Mongolia and North China. Minami Jiro is the oldest military war criminal in international military trials in the Far East. When Lu Shi graduated as a second lieutenant in 1895, people like Wu Tengzhang were still wearing open-backed pants. He and Jingu Fan San are the leaders of the big distribution valve, guaranteed by Kazushige Ugaki. He was put on the bench because he was the minister of the army in the cabinet at the time of the September 18th Incident. Minami Jiro praised the aggression plan "Situation Judgment in Showa Six Years" formulated by the General Staff 1930 in the second half of the year: "Situation Judgment in Showa Six Years" is very good, and I fully agree with it. We can have a big fight! "In August, he openly called for a war of aggression and occupied northeast China by force. Even so, Tiamatot Shozo, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, was still not satisfied, thinking that Minami Jiro, as the secretary of the army, was "an irrelevant elder statesman of the East".

After the September 18th Incident broke out, Minami Jiro was ecstatic. On September 9th, 193 1, he wrote in his notebook: "Alas, what should have happened has finally come." 193/kloc-0 held a meeting with the chief of staff, Jin San, and the director of the army education department, Nobuyoshi Muto, and decided not to implement the cabinet's resolution on "not expanding the situation", supported the military actions of the Kwantung Army and the Korean army to continuously expand the war of aggression, and made the cabinet pass on September 25,193/kloc-0.

On the night of June+10/October 17, 65438, Minami Jiro sent a telegram to the commander of the Kwantung Army: "(1) The new attempt of the Kwantung Army to rule Manchuria independently from the imperial army should be curbed. (2) Under normal circumstances, it is safe to advance according to the intention of the army. " In order to appease the Kwantung Army, General Masaaki Shirakawa, a military senator, was sent to the northeast to convey the support of the military department for occupying the northeast of China, and finally approved some ultra vires actions of the Kwantung Army. On September 28th, three Japanese officers sent Hashimoto Tōru, the second chief of staff, and others to Shenyang, once again conveying the instructions that the army firmly supported the Kwantung Army to expand its aggression. At the same time, Minami Jiro kept putting pressure on the Prime Minister. In June, the cabinet collapsed and Minami Jiro was transferred to the Military Senate. 65438+At the end of February, he secretly went to the northeast of China alone to meet with the commander of the Kwantung Army, Ben Zhongxiang, to study the countermeasures for occupying the northeast. He met with Zang Shiyi, the pseudo-governor of Fengtian, and Xiqia, the pseudo-governor of Jilin Province, and initially agreed on the colonial rule plan of "welcoming" Puyi to the northeast to establish an "independent country of Manchuria and Mongolia". Minami Jiro is glad that your arrival has successfully achieved his expected goal. 1934 12 Minami Jiro was the commander of the kwantung army and also served as the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Manchuria. This "extraordinary power" means that the Kwantung Army has completely controlled Manchuria. When Minami Jiro took office, he made a very long statement, in which it was striking that "in the future, we should make special efforts to formulate an economic national policy ... and be determined to pay special attention to the economy" and "the most urgent task is to make Manchukuo peaceful". And made it clear that for the economic development of Manchuria, "investment is absolutely necessary, so capital is very welcome, and capital should not be confused with the violence of some capitalists. This is a very narrow idea." The Kanto Guild Hall is an old Japanese colonial institution in the northeast of China. It has been competing with the Kwantung Army for the control of the puppet Manchukuo, which led to the instability of Japan's rule over Manchuria. From Minami Jiro, the commander of the Kwantung Army began to command the Kanto Hall and became the de facto ruler of the Puppet Manchukuo. Under the arrangement of Minami Jiro, the puppet Manchukuo emperor Puyi visited Japan in April 1935.

After taking office, he spared no effort to make Japan's colonial rule over the puppet Manchukuo more systematic and concrete. First of all, he adjusted the military and political circles of the puppet Manchukuo. A prominent example is the pseudo-prime minister who replaced Zheng, who appointed Zhang Jinghui. Xi·QIA, who still holds some military and political power, was appointed as the minister of the palace, and Zang Shiyi was also promoted by the court as the speaker of the pseudo-Senate. At the same time, a series of bloody crusades were carried out in key areas. According to the public security information of the General Staff of the Kwantung Army 1937, before Minami Jiro 1934+0 1 took up his post, there were 32,000 anti-Japanese armed personnel in Northeast China, which was reduced to 1 person before Minami Jiro 1936 left office in February.

During Minami Jiro's tenure, the basic point of the policy was that the decision-making power was still in the hands of the Kwantung Army, but the intervention of the Kwantung Army in administration was appropriately restrained, and the actual administration of colonial rule was left to experienced Japanese officials as much as possible. In advance, with the consent of Japan's Lu Xianglin Mijiro and the second chief of staff, Ueda Chiyo, Minami Jiro put forward "Opinions on Implementing Manchuria Policy" to win the support and assistance of the Japanese Cabinet. In his opinion, he clearly put forward the policy to be implemented: "When the Kwantung Army gives guidance, it should avoid falling into the malpractice of military arbitrariness and try to use people with unique skills such as civil servants."

1934 65438+In February, the notorious Kwantung Army Secret Service was revoked and replaced by the Manchu Affairs Bureau. This pseudo-organization is directly managed by the Japanese Prime Minister, with Lu Xianglin as its president, and for the first time, it is the director of the Bank of the Ministry of Finance, Shino Kawayue. Since then, this position has been succeeded by an official from the Ministry of Finance, reflecting the cooperation between the Japanese military and the Ministry of Finance in managing the administrative affairs of the puppet Manchukuo. Minami Jiro supported them and expressed the intention of "returning the Kwantung Army to the army commander as soon as possible".

What Minami Jiro did after he became the commander of the Kwantung Army was that the Japanese military and the Kwantung Army revised and enriched their policies. It also represents that after Japan's successful invasion of China, the Japanese military, bureaucrats, financial circles and political parties finally reached the so-called "national reunification" system around how to colonize Northeast China.

The events of February 26th ended the military career of Minami Jiro and many other generals. After the incident, Minami Jiro's attitude wavered again. Tojo Hideki, then commander of the Kanto Gendarmerie, ordered the puppet Manchukuo to enter a state of emergency, quickly controlled the situation in Manchukuo, and ensured that there was no martyrdom in Manchukuo. After that, the Japanese army began to suppress personnel, and Minami Jiro, as a representative of the old warlords, was also incorporated into the reserve team. Later, he served as the governor of North Korea and brutally suppressed the anti-Japanese movement of the Korean people. During the term of 1942, he personally ordered the torture and killing of hundreds of British and American soldiers captured by the Japanese.