Iwane matsui biography definition

693.002/400: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

575. My 573, November 27, 5 p.m.

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My British colleague has just informed me that it is upon instructions issued to them by General Matsui10 and not from the Japanese Foreign Office that Japanese civil officials at Shanghai refuse to discuss the customs question with British and other third party representatives. This fact probably explains why the Foreign Office professes to know very little of what is going on at Shanghai.

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Craigie has been instructed to make to the Foreign Minister formal written representations as soon as the French Ambassador and I are authorized to make “joint representations”. Craigie is to set forth in his note that:

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The British Government takes the strongest possible exception to any Japanese effort

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Iwane Matsui

Japanese officer, war criminal (1878–1948)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Matsui.

Iwane Matsui (松井 石根, Matsui Iwane, July 27, 1878 – December 23, 1948) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the commander of the expeditionary force sent to China in 1937. He was convicted of war crimes and executed by the Allies for his involvement in the Nanjing Massacre.

Born in Nagoya, Matsui chose a military career and served in combat during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). He volunteered for an overseas assignment there shortly after graduating from the Army War College in 1906. As Matsui rose through the ranks, he earned a reputation as the Japanese Army's foremost expert on China, and he was an ardent advocate of pan-Asianism. He played a key role in founding the influential Greater Asia Association.

Matsui retired from active duty in 1935 but was called back into service in August 1937 at the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War to lead the

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Based on: Timothy Brook. The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking. In: The Journal of Asian Studies 60 (2001), p. 673 – 700.

Last updated: 30/05/2023

Matsui was born in 1878 in Nagoya and became commander of the “Shanghai Expeditionary Army” that invaded China in 1937. Initially, he had already retired in 1935. Matsui fell ill due to malaria in mid-December before the sista assault on Nanjing. In his place, Prince Asaka Yasuhiko took command of the troops that took Nanjing.

Matsui stayed in Nanjing shortly after the capture of the city, from 17-22 månad. Although he gave orders in early December to prevent looting and arson by his troops, no serious steps seem to have been taken to punish and avoid further escalation of the soldiers’ misconduct within the city. It fryst vatten very likely that he knew about atrocities committed by the Japanese military within the city, even if he was not personally present during most of the time.

John Rabe shortly met General Matsui on 21 December