‘In 1947, at Yuhuatai in Nanjing, Japanese Lieutenant General Tani Hisao was brought to the site for his execution. The area was packed with citizens, whose cries of fury and intense hatred filled the air. Faced with the enraged crowd, Tani Hisao’s legs went weak and his face turned ashen; he had to be supported by two military police officers, who held him by the arms as he walked. – Ten years earlier, in 1937, Tani Hisao had led the Japanese 6th Division in breaching the Zhonghua Gate of Nanjing. Once inside the city, he permitted his soldiers to engage in an orgy of arson, murder, looting, and every other conceivable atrocity—crimes too numerous to fully recount. A decade later, he finally faced the judgment of justice. An executioner from the military police fired a shot into the back of his head; the bullet exited through the front, knocking out two of his front teeth. Thus, this notorious criminal, once infamous for his heinous acts, met his end.’
