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Execution of Japanese General known as the "Butcher of Nanjing" - Nanjing massacre - Moritake Tanabe

Execution of Moritake Tanabe - Bestial Japanese General & Atrocities during the Massacre of Nanjing. Moritake Tanabe was born on the 26 February 1889 in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. As with his father who was a former samurai and later a colonel in the early Imperial Japanese Army, Moritake also wanted to become a soldier. After attending military preparatory schools, Tanabe graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1910 and from Army Staff College in 1918. In his early career, Tanabe served on the staff of the Kyoto-based 16th Division which was one of four new infantry divisions raised by the Imperial Japanese Army in the closing stages of the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905. Tanabe then served as an instructor at the Army Academy, as a military attaché to France, commander of the 61st Infantry Battalion, and on the staff of the Army Maintenance Bureau. Conflict in Asia between Japan and China began with the Invasion of Manchuria, well before the official start of World War II. As part of earlier treaty agreements, the Japanese had troops protecting the railroad in Southern Manchuria. However Japan wanted to expand their control over Chinese Manchuria so on September 18, 1931 the Japanese planted a small explosive device next to the tracks owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railroad near the city of Mukden. The explosion that followed became known as the Mukden incident. Since the invasion of Manchuria, there were various "incidents", or armed clashes of a limited nature between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China, but all had subsided. However, this changed on the night of July 7, 1937, when a small Japanese force on maneuvers near the Marco Polo Bridge demanded entry to the tiny walled town of Wanping in order to search for one of their soldiers. However, the Chinese garrison in the town refused the Japanese entry; a shot was heard, and the two sides began firing. The Chinese government, under strong anti-Japanese pressure, refused to make any concessions in the negotiation of the dispute and the Japanese also maintained their position. As a result, the conflict continued to grow. The significance of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident is that following it, tensions did not subside again; instead, there was an escalation, with larger forces committed by both sides and fighting spreading to other parts of China. Following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which marked the beginning of The Second Sino-Japanese War or War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression between 1937–1945, the Japanese scored major victories, capturing Beijing, Shanghai and the Chinese capital of Nanjing in 1937, which resulted in the Nanjing Massacre also known as the Rape of Nanjing. With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Tanabe was appointed Chief of Staff of the 10th Imperial Japanese Army in October 1937. This was a new organization under the Japanese Central China Area Army, created as an emergency reinforcement force to supplement the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army after the Battle of Shanghai which lasted from August 13, 1937, to November 26, 1937, and was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the entire war, later described as "Stalingrad on the Yangtze", and is often regarded as the battle where World War II started. After over three months of extensive fighting on land, in the air and at sea, the battle concluded with a victory for Japan. The battle can be divided into three stages, and eventually involved nearly one million troops. The first stage lasted from August 13 to August 22, 1937, during which the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China attempted to eradicate Japanese troop presence in downtown Shanghai. The second stage lasted from August 23 to October 26, 1937, during which the Japanese launched amphibious landings on the Jiangsu coast and the two armies fought a Stalingrad-like house-to-house battle, with the Japanese attempting to gain control of the city and the surrounding regions. The last stage, ranging from October 27 to the end of November 1937, involved the retreat of the Chinese army in the face of Japanese flanking maneuvers, and the ensuing combat on the road to China's capital, Nanjing. Join World History channel and get access to benefits:    / @worldhistoryvideos   Disclaimer: All opinions and comments below are from members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History channel. We do not accept promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on attributes such as: race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation. World History has right to review the comments and delete them if they are deemed inappropriate. ► CLICK the SUBSCRIBE button for more interesting clips:    / @worldhistoryvideos   #ww2 #worldwar2videos #worldhistory