EXECUTION of Hisao Tani - BESTIAL Japanese GENERAL Reponsisble for the Nanjing Massacre

Hisao Tani was born on 22 December 1882 to a farming family in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1903 at the age of 20, Tani graduated from the 15th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy placing 16th in his class.
On 8 February 1904 the Russo-Japanese War began which was fought over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The war ended on 5 September 1905 with the complete victory of the Japanese military, which surprised international observers and transformed the balance of power in both East Asia and Europe, resulting in Japan's emergence as a great power and a decline in the Russian Empire's prestige and influence in Europe. Russia's incurrence of substantial casualties and losses for a cause that resulted in humiliating defeat contributed to a growing domestic unrest which culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution, and severely damaged the prestige of the Russian autocracy.
Tani saw combat during that war as a second lieutenant in the Guard's First Infantry Battalion, although his training at the academy had been in artillery.
In 1912, Tani graduated from the 24th class of the Army War College, which accepted only previous graduates of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. Supported by influential pro-German ministers and army officers, the Army War College was modeled after the Prussian War College, with German officers hired to provide training. Learning tended to be by rote memorization, with little encouragement for creative thinking or discussion among the students.
Much of the empire's elite including prime ministers during the period of Japanese militarism were graduates of the college and each year, the six graduates with the best marks were each awarded with an Army Sword by the Emperor. Tani graduated in the third place among the students in this term.
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[@a84c1]

One thing japanese and german soldiers have in common when caught the excuse 'I was just following orders' to justify their crimes.

[@fabiomacedo1681]

It is because until 1945 it was a valid argument. Things just changed after a new doctrine stablished during Nuremberg Trial

[@johnc.6645]

The scary thing is that the atrocities were well known by the citizens and even described as heroic acts. The two soldiers who went on a beheading competition were praised in Japanese press. Atrocities have happened in all armies but the scale was usually small and kept away from the citizens. The Japanese were fully supported of this horror.

[@wakeupuk3860]

My uncle who I never knew was the older brother to my father and I grew in the 1950s and 1960s learning about such crimes from my father who not surprising had a deep hatred to anything Japanese , i.e.radios and all their people. On joining the RAF in the early 1970s, I started to learn martial arts and became very interested in Japanese cinema, especially Seven Samurai and many other aspects of Japan. It hurt my father greatly and we argued a lot about it. He died about 35 years ago, we were not close and possibly my fascination with Japan I suspect was the cause of it. When I retired about ten years ago, I decided to visit Japan mainly to see places such as Kyoto and as such went with a fair amount of hesitation, reserved and guilt that I expect I had obtained from my father as a child. To my surprise and astonishment, I found and on going back a second time that after a lifetime of travelling, working and even living abroad I found the Japanese people compare to many other nationalities to be the nicest, politesse, friendly, helpful, happy and so many other positive human traits such as the cleanest, tidiness, respectful to each other and strong desire to look after their country. I felt totally at home in Japan and so much wished I had gone their as a young man, lived, married (their women are the most beautiful and loving in the world) and worked their. MY POINT: A total dichotomy for me in my life, is, how could such a country and its people in a such very short time become the total opposite to what I came across and from historical accounts was what Japan was like before the warlords took control before WW2.

[@MrAkaacer]

@@wakeupuk3860 Japanese are still very racist. Japanese culture has two faces, one for public and one for private. You do not understand Japan.

[@Itried20takennames]

A lot of the Japanese crimes are known now because the Japanese troops themselves took pics and kept literal photo albums of their atrocities….for “personal reasons.” These were then found next to their Japanese troops corpses by Allied troops, and showed a fraction of what they did. Japan is not sorry in the least regarding their sadism in WW 2, only sorry that they lost and consider themselves “ the real victims here.”

[@wakeupuk3860]

I can't disagree totally with your valid point, especially with the older generation, but the younger ones, who I met many of in my travels in Japan, are far more open and accept the horrors of what happened. What the world needs to do and sadly are not doing, as is happening in western schools now with political correctness ( which has become Woke). That I as a teacher from industry who tried to oppose, failed, made my self ill and I left a job I love and was good at, is the allowed abuse of 'brainwashing' of children which Hitler did with German children that became his storm troopers and the Imperial Guard that took over Japan before the war, that they did to their children, who went on to bayonet children when they became soldiers. Having once my self and from my father very much believed the Japanese felt they were the real victims is not really true. I have the advantage unlike most people to live and work with many nationalities around the world and without any doubt a country which can produce as a norm such beautiful man made items in so many forms, which the rest of the world now does in plastic and by machines, a national respect of older people, politeness, cleanness, traditions and their music - should not be judged by the hijacking of a few evil Generals for 30 years, they should be judged by the thousands of their years.the @@Itried20takennames

[@ludoviccruchot5984]

Japanese people possibly didn't know as the war occured elsewhere most of time, but German people knew. I understand it was not easy even fatal to oppose but they knew.

[@user-en8gr4ye3d]

Unfortunately few of the Japanese involved in or who directed the atrocities were punished. And as far as I know the Japanese government has not to this day admitted to the actions done by their military, unlike the Germans who later took a strong anti-Nazi cleansing stance. Even so when I was briefly stationed in Japan in the late 1960s I found many of the generations in their teens and 20s were aware of what had happened and were not appreciative of it. Also they thought starting the war with us was not too bright.

[@tommorgan1291]

Yes, you have yo wonder that a country with practically no natural resources would attack a rich country? It's called "arrogance."

[@StephenLuke]

RIH Hisao Tani (1882-1947)

[@jeffgann6613]

My father was a WWll combat veteran and later served under McArthur in the occupation force in Japan immediately after the surrender. He would not talk about the experience much but always carried a certain animosity regarding Japanese soldiers simply saying. .."if you only knew what I know. " One of his friends barely survived the Bataan death march. Sadly, the human capacity for inhumane behavior is not respective of any boundaries, limits, or ethnicity.

[@peterherard8207]

I find it hard to believe that the German and Japanese civilian populationshad absolutely no knowledge of anything that was going, I'll never believe that

[@tatata1543]

They knew.

[@user-go2st5fi9w]

Peter heard wrong.

[@edward1676]

Oh they knew..

[@bostonrailfan2427]

they knew what was going on and either supported it because of their ingrained xenophobia and racism or turned a blind eye

[@ericbezagu8451]

Of course, they knew.

[@billmalone5050]

What really angers me is tha since 1945, the post war Japanese government has never taught their citizens born after the war about the actions and atrocities committed by both the Japanese government and the Japanese armed forces between 1931and 1945 in Manchuria, China and the Pacific theater of WW2. And also between 1910 and 1945 during the brutal Japanese occupation of Korea.

[@Tigs2]

And now the US refuses to teach about the atrocities of slavery. Such policies ensure these dreadful occurrences will happen again.

[@RokneAlavinejad]

What angers me is that you damn Yankees stole Texas, California, Hawaii by illegal means and you continue bullying other nations at the present time and commiting atrocities all over the world.

[@peterherard8207]

Every nationality / people group have a certain percentage that are truly depraved early to mid 20th century it just seems like Germany & Japan had an overwhelming share

[@user-go2st5fi9w]

Sorry, but Germans did do rapes like the Japs, American soldiers, and Soviet troops. Stop believing your cousins. US Soldiers in the Pacific were doing a lot of rapes of Japanese women. Only the US Marines never did such acts, because like the Germans, both were highly disciplined.

[@RokneAlavinejad]

You damn Yankees committed lot more atrocities throughout history than any other nations.Everything you have is stolen and taken by force from other nations.

[@ashishjoshi8148]

War is Hell.

[@josephgriffin2388]

There are no tears...on this site.

[@evilborg]

In some ways the japanese were worse than the nazi's but equally ruthless

[@zarb88]

in some ways are you nuts?

[@evilborg]

@@zarb88 not at all....

[@jasonkinzie8835]

The Nazis were more selective in their brutality. It depended entirely on your ethnicity as to how you would be treated. The Nazis were as brutal, (if not more brutal), to Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and their political adversaries. And they were brutal to anyone of Slavic ethnicity as well. I think that the Nazis were equal to the Japanese in their brutality. They were just more selective. In some ways the racism of the Nazis prevented brutality when it came to rape. This wasn't because the Nazis cared more about their victims. Its just that the Nuremberg laws demanded the death penalty for racial Germans who had sex with non Aryans.

[@Celtopia]

What the Hell is "War Rape"?...you mean RAPE,....there are no mitigating distinctions ,rape is rape. Apart from that,thank you,that was fascinating.

[@mattalbrecht7471]

Some will whine about American atrocities in a war. Not that there is an excuse EVER for inhumane handling of POWs..but compared to what the Japanese did...

[@mattmanw54301]

There is an important difference. The atrocities committed by Japan were part of a larger strategy. With the allies, the atrocities were isolated incidents.

[@ChadwickTheChad]

The US didn't commit any atrocities during WWII. The US was defending itself.

[@mattmanw54301]

that is my opinion too. i have heard some people say that hiroshima and nagasaki were war crimes. they were justified, but even if you think they were atrocities, they were the exception rather than the rule. the US went through the whole war being expected not to be as barbaric as the axis. and we STILL beat Japan.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@mattmanw54301war crimes, how? oh, right: these idiots have zero clue that they were manufacturing weapons IN THEIR HOMES. that removes that claim entirely!

[@Dogsrcute823]

You can’t start a war and expect to decide how it ends. Shit happens

[@davewilson9738]

The second world war was a massive alignment of all forms of deviancy to rise to the surface and fulfil their raison d'etre. So many Japanese soldiers were fortunate that the limelight was stolen by the Nazis and their hideous crimes, otherwise I think a comparison of the Nazi and Japanese atrocities are almost identical. Japan escaped quite lightly as far as reparations were concerned.

[@ole5539]

Nazi and Japanese treatment of Allied Pow's were certainly at different levels; Germany never approached Japan's handling of those detained. And you are correct, retribution was not enforced equally.

[@KOFAKEDEM]

Not to make light of Imperial Japan's atrocities, I only wish to limit the focus here on the issue of reparations. I heard that Japan gave huge sums on many occasions to all the countries in Asia in the form of economic aids, grants and non-repayable loans. They are not reparations in name but in their effects. How accurate is this information? I am a Hongkonger.

[@davewilson9738]

@@KOFAKEDEM in comparison to Nazi Germany they gave pennies.

[@muhammadabdulsalam602]

Morality zero

[@joereilly1519]

I read somewhere that Hisao Tani gave orders against rape and looting, Junior commanders disobeyed his orders, insubordination was common practice in the Imperial Army. An major example of this was the invasion of Manchuria, by the Japanese Armies in Korea. It was obvious that there was severe lack of discipline among Japanese troops.

[@VinnyLam]

Yeah, Hisao Tani was a scapegoat. Prince Asaka was the true perpetrator of the Nanjing massacre. He was the one who gave the order to kill all captives, which provided the official sanction for the massacre.

[@joereilly1519]

My mistake I meant General Iwane Matsui. not Tani.

[@angloaust1575]

If only admiral Perry hadn't forced them to open up their country for trade in the 19th century!

[@user-md6tq3oo1h]

It's so odd how this channel describes every single member of the Axis powers as "bestial". Such a specific adjective.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

No one told them their pronouns; what can one expect?

[@user-gj5gb7fd6n]

Japan Started the war against Russia and China, so it was the Japano Russian War and the Japano Sino War.

[@rbob4931]

0:05 Chinese soldiers were shown in your video edit as your narrative said “Japan, seeking raw material……..” Repeat the same footage at 4:25. Keep up the good work, just be mindful in your future production, do your research diligently.

[@randalllake2785]

Ok, the JAPANESE were monstrously inhumane.

[@user-uh6gf5dp5l]

🤔

[@redtobertshateshandles]

This is war. Japanese have a ruthlessness ingrained and a knife culture. It seems alien to us Westerners who lost that culture with the adoption of firearms.

[@whathappenedtofreethinking6902]

The English are big stabbers as well.

[@ole5539]

It was, and is, not limited to the Japanese, it is an Asian feature. Allied Pow's in Korea and Vietnam were treated outside the rules established by Western nations.

[@vic3295]

Too much information crammed into a short video and barely any mention of the pesron it's ostensibly about- 2nd video I have watched and same both times. Guess that's why it has 28k views but less than 1k likes

[@54living]

Karma (in Buddhism). Newton's 3rd law: Every action has equal and opposite reaction. (in Science).

[@subtle0savage]

Japanese war-crimes dwarfed those perpetrated by any other nation in the 2nd WW, probably more than all the rest put together. And yet... with the help of the U.S. Gov't, 99% were never charged, or saw minimal sentences. Is it any wonder revisionism history has been so successful in Japan? All those horrors, quietly swept under the rug.

[@drewf8619]

Pretty sure I agree... Japan killed ~10 million people and Germany killed ~11 million people... But even with the highest estimate of the Hol0caust numbers... Japan likely killed/murdered more non-combatants than any other country... And if we count r@pe as a war crime... Then 1000% yes... Japan is BY FAR the worst.

[@josephgriffin2388]

Gotta blame it ALL on the U.S.!! ....Liberal are ya?

[@Bodneyblue]

er?..Russia (Stalin killed close to 25 Million of his own people) and Germany ( killing millions of Jews gays gypsies etc)..Don't think Japan killed in those numbers.

[@Dogsrcute823]

@@Bodneyblue a million here and a million there. The cognitive dissonance you have is unbelievable!.

[@marcoflumino]

14:32 1905 Russian Revolution??? Sorry to put a spanner in your video, but the Russian Revolution was in October 1917! Please check the fact before you do a video....

[@MiniUsyk]

The narrators voice is horrific.

[@Pauly421]

Yeah wtf kind of accent is he attempting? Is that supposed to sound like the classic transatlanic voice cos he failed horribly. I'm oot

[@midsaid2161]

Worst, there are various soldiers and generals like him doing the same thing in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philiphines and burma. You will never know how evil and brutal men can be untill you saw or study what the japanese imperial soldiers did in China in Ww2

[@bubblegum8630]

1st

[@DavidMScott-cs8pp]

Russian revolution was 1917

[@josephgriffin2388]

That was the BOLSHEVIC REVOLUTION!! The Russian Revolution was 1905.

[@randalllake2785]

Why don’t you do your homework on the facts of history. These men were Japanese patriots. They were not beasts not perverse. They were soldiers, and behaved as soldiers

[@r43640]

Do not delete!!

[@lilili2121]

1644 －1911，267 years ，the central plains was the territory of the Qing Dynasty ，and the northeastern region was called Manchuria 。1911 －1949，38 years ，the central plains was the territory of the Republic of China ，and the northeastern region was renamed the three eastern provinces (Liaoning ，Jilin，Heilongjiang)。On March 1，1932，the Japanese Kwantung Army illegally established Manchukuo （Manchu country) in Changchun ，the capital of Jilin Province ，on the territory of the Republic of China 。

[@jeremyxu8155]

日本七大甲級戰犯: (1) 東條英機, (2) 土肥原賢二, (3) 廣田弘毅, (4) 板垣征四郎, (5) 松井石根, (6) 木村兵太郎, (7) 武篠章

[@drewf8619]

So you said the name/date of the battle. Listed 6 Japanese leaders... Then said they were warriors/samurai? Well..... (1) あの男達は弱者を食い物にする殺人者だったと思う translation I think those men were murderers who preyed on the weak.