Hisao Tani

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Tani Hisao
War crimes
Crimes against humanity
TrialNanjing War Crimes Tribunal
Criminal penaltyDeath
Military career
Allegiance 
Lieutenant General
Commands heldImperial Japanese Army
Battles/warsRusso-Japanese War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Pacific War

Hisao Tani (谷 寿夫, Tani Hisao, 22 December 1882 – 26 April 1947) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and a convicted war criminal as well as crimes against humanity. Forces under his command committed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. Tani was tried in the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal and executed.

Biography

Early military career

Tani was born to a farming family in

Uehara Yusaku for inaccuracies.[1]

Tani was posted to

military observer for the Japanese government on the combat situation on the Western Front in World War I. After his return to Japan, in April 1919 he served as an instructor at the Army Staff College, and was reappointed to that position in February 1924. In February 1927 he was promoted to colonel and made commander of the IJA 61st Infantry Regiment. In August 1928, he became chief-of-staff of the Nagoya-based IJA 3rd Division.[2]

In May 1930, Tani was named to the

Kumamoto to oversee the reconstruction of the IJA 6th Division
.

World War II

In July 1937, the IJA 6th Division was assigned to the

Nanjing Massacre
.

Returned to Japan at the end of 1937, Tani became commander of the Central District Army until September 1939 when he went into the reserves.

However, after the

conscripted students and home guard militia. The IJA 59th Army was officially demobilized after the surrender of Japan
on August 15, 1945.

Trial and execution

Tani on trial at the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal.
Tani brought to his execution site outside the south gate of Nanking.
Tani executed outside the south gate of Nanking.

In February 1946, Tani was arrested on orders of the

sentenced to death as a BC-class war criminal. On 26 April 1947 he was escorted to his execution spot at Mount Yuhuatai and publicly executed by shooting. The crowds of Chinese civilians who witnessed the execution were cursing at him for the atrocities he committed.[5][6][7]

Family

Tani's son, Hayao Tani, was also an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. A graduate of the 49th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and the 58th class of the Army Staff College, he was a colonel on the staff of the IJA 34th Army and was killed in combat in November 1944.

Decorations

  • 1939 – Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure [8]
  • 1939 – Order of the Golden Kite, 5th class
  • 1940 – Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun

References

Footnotes

  1. ASIN B000JABSCA
    .
  2. ^ Ammenthorp, Steen. "Tani, Hisao". The Generals of World War II.
  3. ^ "Japanese Forces Operating along the Northern Sector of Peiping-Hankow Railway Mid-August, 1937" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Hisao Tani". WW2DB. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  5. ^ "Hisao Tani". WW2DB. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  6. ^ "The veteran who drove Hisao Tani to the execution ground", chinadaily.com.cn, 3 August 2015; accessed 8 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Hisao Tani". WW2DB. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  8. ^ 『官報』「叙任及辞令」March 27, 1939

External links

Media related to Hisao Tani at Wikimedia Commons

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