Iwane Matsui Military person

Iwane Matsui (松井 石根, Matsui Iwane, 27 July 1878 – 23 December 1948) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the commander of the expeditionary forces sent to China in World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for responsibility over the Nanking Massacre.

Personal facts

Iwane Matsui
Birth dateJuly 27, 1878
Birth place
Japan , Aichi Prefecture
Date of deathDecember 23, 1948
Place of death
Japan , Tokyo

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Military person

award
Order of the Rising Sun
Order of the Golden Kite
military operations
Russian Civil War
Russo-Japanese War
Second Sino-Japanese War
military command
11th Division
Taiwan Army of Japan
Central China Area Army
Shanghai Expeditionary Army
service start1897
service end1938

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