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Autopsy on a Japanese victim killed by the Chinese, at Jinan Hospital in May 1928.

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[edit] Background

According to Shōwa sannen Shina Jihen shuppeishi (昭和三年支那事変出兵史) by the General Staff (参謀本部), when the Jinan Incident started on May 3 1928, Japanese troops only guarded a confined area on demand from Chiang Kai-Shek. Outside the safety area, 12 Japanese residents including two women were brutally killed by Chiang's southern army between May 3 to May 4. On May 5, nine victims were found buried near a railroad line. It seems that Chinese army tried to destroy evidence. On May 6, another victim was found but two male victims remained missing. These victims were carried to Jinan Hospital inside the safety line and were autopsied with the presence of Japanese military officers, policemen, and Chinese representatives.

[edit] Identification of the victims

Concerning this incident, there are three photos: Victim A, Victim B and Victim C. Obviously they were taken around the same time in the same place.

The note of the autopsy were cited by various sources including a newreport by Chintao Shinpō on May 7 1928 (Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, reference code: B02030045600), and a book named Sainan Jiken wo chūshin to shite (濟南事件を中心として) by Ogawa Yūzō (小川雄三). The Japanese military officer Sasaki Tōichi (佐々木到一) witnessed the autopsy and reported it in the book Aru gunjin no jiden (ある軍人の自伝). Thus we can identify these victims by comparing these photos with the note. Victim A was Tōjō Yatarō (東條彌太郎), Victim B was Tōjō Kin (東條キン, Kinu キヌ), and Victim C was Takakuma Mume (高熊ムメ, Ume ウメ).

[edit] Source of the photos

The May 1985 issue of the anti-communist magazine Zembō (ゼンボウ) carries these photos. According to Zembō, they were provided by Fukuda Katsuyuki (福田勝之), whose father had obtained them when he had worked for the Consulate General in Jinan as a police. This statement is reinforced by the official archive Gaimushōkeisatsu shi (外務省警察史) Vol. 40. Fukuda Katsuji (福田嘉津次) actually served at the consulate as a police sergeant from July 7 1925 to May 29 1930 and was transferred to the foreign ministry in Tokyo.

[edit] Supplementary information

Nakamura Akira (中村粲) independently conducted research and came to the same conclusion, according to his artle in the January 8 2000 issue of Sankei Shimbun.

Eguchi Keiichi (江口圭一), a professor and supporter of the Japanese Communist Party, also questioned the photo in a letter in the December 14 1984 issue of Asahi Journal. He claimed that he had seen the photo in question shown in an album he had found at a secondhand bookstores in Nagoya and concluded that it was about a victim of the Jinan Incident. He presumed that that album had been brought by a member of the Third Division of Nagoya, who had been sent to Shandong in 1928. Although he did not provide concrete evidences, his political stance indicates that his remark was an outcome of his academic conscience, and thus prevents opponents from labelling these researchers as "right-wing", "imperialists" or so.

These photo themselves tell a little about the subject. The men behind the victim do not wear the same uniform, which corresponds to the fact that Japanese military officers, policemen, and Chinese representatives witnessed the autopsy. Victim A wears tabi, traditional Japanese socks, which proves the victim's nationality.

[edit] Chinese claims

As described above, the identification of the photos ended about 20 years ago, so there is almost no one deals with it in Japan. The Chinese, however, still propagate disinformation that this photo was a vivisection on a Chinese by Unit 100 without providing any evidence. Here are examples:

  • Japanese Atrocities in China, 1928-1945, call number DS777.533.A86.H86.1985 86152706
  • Japanese invasion: history and atrocities, call number DS777.533.A86.H83 1992, isbn 9624291071
  • plague upon humanity : the secret genocide of Axis Japan's germ warfare operation, isbn 0060186259.

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