/kloc-0 was tried after the defeat in 945, and/kloc-0 was judged as a Class A war criminal by the Far East International Military Tribunal in 948. He was the first person to be hanged by lot.
Umezu Yoshijiro Mizu, a native of Oita Prefecture, Japan, was the commander of the Kwantung Army during World War II and the last chief of staff of Japan. He was an important figure in the Japanese militaristic war of aggression against China and its foreign expansion and aggression policy, one of the principal criminals in the war of aggression against China, and one of the 28 fascist war criminals tried in Tokyo, with the highest rank of general. He forced He to sign the infamous "He-US Agreement". He was the second officer of the Army Province when Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China in 1937. During his five years as commander of the Kwantung Army, he suppressed and massacred the people in northeast China, planned the war against the Soviet Union, and signed the order to expand the 73 1 Army. Later, due to the sharp decline in the situation in Japan, he returned to China as the chief of staff until the Japanese government was forced to surrender. 1948165438+10. In October, Mejin was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of Class A war criminals. 1949 65438+1On October 8th, Umezu Yoshijiro died of cancer in the Nested Duck Prison in Tokyo.
In Japanese military circles, he is regarded as an astute and capable general. It can be seen from his experience that Umezu Yoshijiro has been very successful in his official career. Some historians have commented on him like this: "He is not tall, with a kind attitude on the surface, without arrogance, and his language also gives people a sense of humility and elegance." But in fact, this man is not what he looks like. He is really a man with a face and a heart. If there were no military uniforms, most people would not think that he was the commander-in-chief who commanded millions of Japanese invaders. "