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While Matsui was still hardly blameless in all of this, to his credit, after being removed from command, he would make a substantial personal donation to a French humanitarian who was working on trying to set up a safety zone for Chinese civilians in Shanghai. He also tried to get improvements made to certain Chinese refugee camps. On top of that, he commissioned a statue of the bodhisattva for mercy, Kannon, named Koa Kannon (Pan-Asian Kannon) in honor of all Chinese and Japanese soldiers dying during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He also subsequently prayed in front of the Koa Kannon in the morning and evening for pretty much the rest of his life, before ultimately being sentenced to death for his part in the massacre.
As for the Emperor’s uncle, Prince Asaka Well, he would state no such massacre ever happened. He also claimed he did not receive any complaints during the occupation about any such behaviours by his army, nor did he have any knowledge of it…
Unlike Matsui who was sentenced to death, Prince Asaka would be not only protected by, but named by the United States blameless. He then spent the next three and a half decades or so apparently mostly playing golf and designing golf courses until his death in 1981.
Again, check out our two hour documentary Swept Under the Rug: The Truth About the Japanese Holocaust for more details. Many of you likely missed it owing to, by necessity of what we covered, it being both demonetized and age restricted and thus, not exactly promoted by the algorithm to many.
